A risk. She knows now what he meant by their relationship being selfish now -- it was an indulgence he never meant to partake in, one that could have gone nowhere. And yet he'd encouraged it, fell into it just as she had. That, too, makes anger well up inside of her; but it's aimless. If she had listened, if she had accepted all of his warnings, they wouldn't be here either. "Perhaps you should have taken it as a sign." That there was something of value in Thedas, that he need not continue-- "If telling the truth could risk it all, does that make the cause you fought for worth it?"

She knows what his answer will be.

Lavellan sighs, and shakes her head. "I thought I proved to you years ago that not all Dalish are the same." Or was her eagerness to learn, her dedication to the truth, and her acceptance of what he says just pointless and inconsequential to him?