He stops walking and meets her gaze, his own head held as high. They were both proud people and stubborn. Strangely enough, those were features he found attractive and frustrating to deal with despite knowing they existed strongly in himself.

"I have a year and a day until I return to Thedas and continue my plans," he says. For he knows what he will have then and what he will be able to do with it. Before he lacked the power to open his focus himself, but now? Now, he'd be able to do it himself. All he needed was it back in his possession, restored to its former power. "I did not sign the contract lightly."

What she thought she might accomplish here with him were lofty dreams.