Gwenaëlle looks just a little too much as if she's got away with something in the face of that mildness, only shrugging when Romain calls Bellerose a namesake and pleased with the approval of her suggestion. It's a little pert, a little insouciant,

diminishes not at all the way she glows under even perceived praise.

Probably it's some degree of graciousness that helps her bite her tongue on you don't want to bring Thomas home where he might join the chevaliers or the army, a thing they don't need to be overheard discussing in such blunt terms at a party like this. Instead, “I think Kirkwall has been very educational for them,” which is agreement, more than anything else. “And I could probably convince Raoul of just about anything if I promised to let him go up on my dracolisk, so it's worth a try with an academic,” lightly.