It makes enough sense to answer his unasked questions about it, and he nods, ever the intent audience. Even for someone who's always admired the Avvar more than feared them, she's not at all what he'd anticipated. He'd expected her to be standoffish at best, cold and forbidding at worst--but he ought to have given the benefit of the doubt to someone who joined the Inquisition of her own volition for the purpose of helping and healing. She's not at all like the unfriendly woman of his imagination.

"I'd wondered how many people had them, but if they're legends, then it stands to reason that they'd be rare," he muses. That's not the bit of information that had left him the most curious, though.

"Do you...not have a system of writing, then? I'd assume that if anyone would be using it, it'd be the mages..."