"I dunno if shy is the word for it, but I didn't speak to anyone in Kirkwall for at least a few months after wandering in from the woods. That didn't last long, of course, but. Well. It was scary, being in a completely new place where I didn't know anybody and everyone already had reason to dislike me," She says it calmly, matter-of-factly, the way someone talks about an old injury that only acts up during a storm.