There are a number of people who would, likely, describe Benevenuta as a friend; she encourages it, coaxes it, cultivates it. The number of people she would readily and without reservation or agenda describe as her friend is - just the one, in fact. For all that she is so constantly calculating, the drive behind it is a generous heart, so there's that, at least. She doesn't often have to feign affection when it comes to her so naturally.

"I will be glad to help remind you," she says, gracious where he had been understandably, delicately precise. "If only you'd been her for First Night - a different side of Skyhold and our Inquisition you'd have seen. I danced with a Knight-Commander with a light heart."

Norrington is a good man, she thinks. Pel could do worse than him.