[It takes a lot of willpower to hold back that sigh of relief. He seems to have accepted her answer, with its embedded lie of omission, and changed the subject accordingly. She knows the conversation about his future and what happened in Kirkwall is unavoidable, but now isn't the time for it.]

Sadly not. [In so many ways.] I've been here for over a year and a half now. I suppose I've gotten used to it, though I returned home for a time.

[Ten years to be exact, though she'd only slept for a week or so here. To say that had taken some adjustment was an understatement. She'd fallen asleep as a young Warden-Commander, bright and full of optimism, and when she woke up, she'd aged about a decade, and some of that light had gone out of her. Some days, she really wish that had never happened.]