Wouldn't that just be frustrating? To know there was something you were supposed to be like, but couldn't ever achieve because of who you were? It's not similar enough to Solas's expectations of the People that weren't his own, no, but she knows the feeling of falling short of someone's expectations for what one is. It itches and it burns and there is nothing she can do to prove to him that they are worth saving.

Not yet, at any rate.

The question about her arm takes her aback, but it's one she'd have to get used to. Back in Thedas, everyone seemed to understand or know why and how she lost it. Explaining it, well. It was more difficult than she thought it was going to be. "I was dying," she says, simply. "It needed to be removed to save my life." Which is the truth of it, if not the entire truth.