I...suppose you're right. It's just so foreign. All my life, I was taught to put everything else first, that relationships were not feasible for a Circle mage for multiple reasons...and then as a Grey Warden, it didn't seem likely or appropriate, either.

[They have short lives which are very much focused elsewhere. How doesn't that kill any chance of nurturing a relationship.]

...what do you think of him? [Ciri's approval is always important, even more so now.]