"What, did you want to be sent to another clan?" Beleth straightened, scowling. "My mother was making sure that you didn't lose your parents and your family in one fell swoop." Beleth had...issues, with her mother, to say the least, but any implication from another person that she might be wrong never failed to ruffle her feathers, leave her on the defensive. "It wasn't easy for you, but it was surely better than being shuttled off to some hodunk clan in the frostbacks, with a couple dozen people, always an outsider, with no one that you knew. My mother broke the rules of the Dalish to offer you that mercy."

She paused, squinting. "Did you ever even ask to be transferred?"

It was completely away from the topic they'd been on, but Beleth couldn't help it. This was her mother, her Keeper, her leader. She loved her mother, as much as she might grouse to herself. Everything that Beleth was, and believed in, called for devotion to Deheune.