"Ever so hard on yourself." A small roll of her eyes as she hands over her coin and turns from the merchant, her business concluded with them for now. The Circle marked you well, she might have said but so many things stay in her head and don't make it out of her mouth. Again, she's changed. "Though without some to remain in Skyhold I am certain some calamity would have befallen it; did anything go amiss? Assassins within the walls? Rifts opening? The water supply fouling itself?"

Out of respect for certain missions, she doesn't bring up abominations. And Bruce was there in Kirkwall (was it Kirkwall? Wherever Merrill's eluvian took them) when she ran through the darkness chasing a boy not hers.

"One trip away to Kirkwall and now is the first I feel I have had time to gather breath in Skyhold since."