"You are lucky, then, to not have gone the same way as your husband. Pardon my prying, but was it perhaps something native to the area? Something that spread? A plague, of sorts? That you should both have it seems an unfortunate coincidence."

And it may be nothing, but details can make all the difference. It was suggested that it was something he picked up in Tevinter, after all. He is no healer, but it might be wise to consult someone like Anders if he might know what to do with such details.

The wine he will take. As at dinner, he has little fear of overindulgence on that point. A little wine killed no one (when not poisoned, something to very occasionally worry about in Orlais).

"I also must ask a question I have asked others, that you have perhaps gotten a few times before, but forgive the vagueness of it. If there is anything at all you can remember in the past few weeks or months that has been unusual, out of the ordinary, strange in a way you cannot explain--surely if something obvious had come to mind you would have let us know, but in this busy time, with upped production, with refugees, if there is anything you can recall that might stand out as particular..."