The admission makes her heart beat faster and her cheeks go pink. It's possible she's reading too much into his words; that she's only thinking he means something he doesn't because it would be so nice to imagine something like it without barriers in their way.

"I wish I had left the clan earlier. I could have traveled, come to Orlais... maybe walked past the University one day as a man came by with his nose buried in a mathematics book. He'd bump into me and say how sorry he was, and I'd tell him it was all right. And I'd say 'My name's Ellana,' and he'd say, 'I'm Felix,' and--" And she stops herself from saying more as tears gather in the corners of her eyes.