So I have noticed. [It is as kind an agreement as she can muster and is laced with her own subtler sort of resignation.] Discovering what is and is not strange to Thedas is a trial of its own, I've found...but it is a trial that might be simplified if undertaken by two.

[The only skills she used during that fight were paltry echoes of local magic. She'd cast barriers that fizzled and exerted some mild, tenuous control over the rift, but little else. He had no idea what she was capable of, nor she him, and that made this proposition risky...but this place grated on her and she grew ever-more frustrated by the weariness that mounted within her bones. Anything that would speed her learning about Thedas and the way power was bent here would be invaluable.]

You drew your will into a shield quite elegantly. Do you find it easier than attempting to mimic their barrier spells?