It gets her to crack a small smile. "You're lucky you got me after a few years in Thedas. Straight out of home, my self-defense skills were... you know, I was going to say non-existent, but I suppose I did put someone's eye out once. But I had time to build a machine, and I didn't pull the trigger myself. I think in the grand scheme of things, that doesn't really count."

Debatable, but whether or not it counts, it's not an approach that the world they're in would allow her to replicate either way.