Why? Her eyes narrowed further. A rift had opened in Skyhold, an elf had nearly died, and she wanted to know why Cassandra was investigating further?

In the end, it did not matter; Galadriel answered all the same, though Cassandra frowned in disapproval at her answer and the slow cadence of her voice. Was she mocking her?

"As one would expect, beneath an open rift," she replied, going for dry and coming off more sharply than she had intended. She huffed in impatience. "Others have said that the shards in their hands...reacted to the rift opening," she prompted. "Did you experience anything similar?"