"Mothers seldom are, did she teach you to cook? I'm sure I've seen you when I go to visit Burly, Raas and Kalla." Also she too is not that jam thief, she just sighs at the spice rack.

"Taxes, are a most terrible business. That's one of the other names for it. And another is Beggar My Neighbour. We're a nation of sailors where I come from, that's what my father called it when he taught it to me." There's a grin on her face, one that manages to hide any sort of homesickness she still feels when it's getting on for a year of being in Thedas now. "You want to catch a girl's interest and sit her down to learn things, you say a name that'll get her attention."