"No, but those dangers have always existed for mages. As different dangers present themselves for the army." Is Bethany's simple response. "Mages are built to endure, Nightingale. We have had to."

Something in her expression shifts then, before she looks off into the distance, "I have my ... concerns, but I understand why I cannot go. If Clarel has already infested the rest of the Order, then the danger to me is ten-fold. As Velanna and I might end up being the only two free Warden mages in all of Fereldan and Orlais ... I am needed here, so I will stay here."

Her fingers grip her staff. "Besides, someone must pay the butcher's bill."