Lavellan can't deny the truth of that -- it would be. She was First long before she was Inquisitor, but even then that was a position of respect and authority. How was she supposed to simply go from having all of that to command to this? To being a simple scout?

By trying not to think about it too much. "It will be. But I gave up what power I had at the end of the Exalted Council." Something she's sure he knows, since part of the reason for disbanding it was the spies in its ranks -- both Qunari and his. "It will require some getting used to, back in Thedas and here."