Oh, that was almost cute. She said nothing, though her smile probably gave away her thoughts.

Hawke took another careful glance over one of the sides before she turned back to him and shook her head. "I preferred it that way. Embarrassment aside, the Arishok would only fight me. Had Orsino and Meredith been there, they would have stepped in, and I don't like contemplating what might have happened." It was bad enough that Isabela could have been taken. "Better that it worked out as it did, even if it would have been marvelous to be fighting alongside the First Enchanter and the Knight-Commander." After watching them distract the Qunari, Hawke found herself admiring and respecting the both of them for their prowess.

"Yes. Things." She would be lying if she said she was rushing to go back to Ferelden. Her only family was in Kirkwall, her friends and the people she cared for. If Lothering was still standing, that would be another story entirely. She might have gone back for pieces of her family's legacy, anything of her father's. But not now. "See, you have things too." She smirked. "And if I left, the city would be too quiet."