"It's hard to imagine her the caged bird." Wren can take that for confirmation, since it is; some of Gwenaëlle's edges soften a little, to speak of a woman she's long admired (loved, in the desperate way of a child soaking up light that has never been turned on her before). Others turn brittle - she understands the absence. She doesn't grudge it. It was the right decision, to protect Kieran -

But it is a persistent ache, nevertheless.

"She was invaluable, when I was first in Skyhold. I owe her a great deal. At very least, enough to reconsider some of my opinions." On mages, and where they belonged.