Cullen hears that Adelaide has received a large shipment from home. Not through normal channels, but through the happy coincidence of Jim walking past the gates during the delivery process on his way to see Cullen. He tosses it out as an off-hand comment, and Cullen waits for her arrival. Except she does not come. Which is strange. Even when her family's contributions do not include anything specifically for him, she tells him what supplies have been allocated and where. She knows he likes to know.

Rather than sit and wonder, when the thoughts in his mind begin to muddle and he knows he will be useless without a break to clear his head, he leaves his office and goes looking for her. It doesn't take him long to be directed to the stables, and the idea that it might be new tack for the mounts, which would be quite a welcome addition to the Inquisition's supplies, is chased away by the sound of gentle snuffling yips coming from a generous bed of straw in a seemingly empty stall. "Are those--?"