However long it takes, so long as he can, Lavellan knows on instinct that Cole will be there. It's what he does, and that reassurance alone is enough to make her smile. How thankful she is is hard to put into words, so she doesn't try further. Just is content to sit there.

"Good," she says, smiling at the definitive answer. "You know the moment that you're not, you can come to me, right?" And she will do anything and everything she can in order to change it for him. There is nothing that will stop her from keeping him safe, as much as she can. That causes a twinge of regret -- for she couldn't keep him safe from herself -- before she pushes her thoughts away from that.