Hawke's attention is immediately drawn to what the girl is doing and for a few seconds she forgets what she was going to ask. Or, rather, she puts it on hold.

"Very new. So new you might still be able to see the water from sailing over," she jokes. Although given that they apparently rise out of the fountain in the middle of town, her words work both for her journey to Kirkwall and her arrival here. "I was going to ask what people do around here, but I think I can see the answer you would give. What is that?"