Well if it isn't dragons on the path it's some other kind of beast. As someone who once lived in the middle of fucking nowhere, there's always something trying to eat you.

[It's said very matter-of-factly because it is a matter of fact. Hawke and her family came to Kirkwall to try and outrun the Darkspawn and all that came with it. She's not a city girl by birth, otherwise she wouldn't know how to live off the land. Not that it matters in this place in the least; no land to find life out of.

Her eyes brighten at that story; she is duly impressed! Bragging approved!]

Oh that's brilliant, you mean frost as in has ice powers too? [She grins at him.] And as a child too? How did you manage that?