The fact that Hermione didn't yet know what sort of enemy they might be up against - if any at all - was enough to make her uncomfortable, and so she was glad that Kirk had been sent along on this mission with her. She stayed close to him and Anders and Inessa's mabari Garahel, and to Inessa, too. They might not be perfect substitutions for the friends she had back home, but at least she knew that most of them were better-suited to deal with the sorts of dangers Thedas regularly posed.

"Good," she muttered as she veered that much closer to him. If she felt more comfortable with him, she would have grabbed his hand for support, but Hermione's sense of boundaries (and pride) was too strong for that. "I can't exactly cast much in the way of a locator spells if any of us wander off or end up forgetting a rendezvous spot."

She couldn't exactly cast many spells in general yet, but she managed to bite her tongue before she thought too hard about that. She felt defenseless enough as it was, even if her magic was slowly getting better.