For a short time, he'd had that, a crew. Jonas and Nate and Velanna and Oghren and Sigrun and Justice. They'd fought Darkspawn together, discussed what was going on together - they'd been a team. And then Jonas had abandoned them and it had all fallen apart.

"I don't need comfort. I just need to learn what I can to help, and I don't know how much time we have." They need to defeat Corypheus, that's a given. But somehow there's got to be a balance between taking long enough for mages to get established and not taking so long that countries fall apart, but he has no idea what it is.

"I wish I'd something to offer in return." She's taught him beginning parkour, now this too, and he doesn't know if there's anything she could want.