[ Hawke doesn't break from his cleaning as Fenris says that, having warmed at the not-laugh, and this is a familiar scenario. Firelight and easing in the presence of each other and Dog thinking it's all about him, and of course, it would end differently here as it ended back then and there, but that's alright. Hawke is well practiced at living for the present.

Except for when he reflects on the past, of course, and he is forced too, now. Bethany, who'd died before she hit the ground, and how could you let her charge off like that.

He looks over at Fenris, the ease in his own expression gone. ]

Bethany, [ he repeats, confusion evident in echo. ] No, we'd always avoided the Circles. We were good at that, you know. I'm not sure how she'd have fared, if she'd ever made it to Kirkwall.

[ Because she was gentle, but powerful, and passionate, and charges ogres, and maybe two apostates living free of the Gallows would have been too much for Meredith to swallow.

His phrasing is deliberate, anyway. Bethany never met Fenris. ]