"If it makes you feel better, I wasn't prepared for Times Square. But no, I get what you mean. It's never what you imagine. I logically knew a world where most people get places on foot or by horse just feels bigger, but before Thedas, I'd never lived somewhere like that. Cars and trains and airplanes were just ... background noise in my world."

She looks over at Ellie, considering the other woman as she looks at the fire.

"For what it's worth ... I'm really sorry. I mean, I guess that's a weird thing to say, kind of, but it's just really unfair, the hand you got dealt. And I'm glad you made it to Thedas so I could meet you."