[Aren still counts it as a smile, remembering his habits from before. She grins as Barkspawn licks Justice's hand before sitting and watching the two of them. Right, to business. She crosses her arms, pacing.]

It's a place called Hadriel that has a lot of people from a lot of different worlds. Most of them don't even know about Thedas, let alone the Fade. There are powerful beings around that people call gods, but they have names like Rage, Fear, Sorrow, and they feed off of the specific emotions relating to their names. Sound familiar? They even created these dreamscapes to leech them from us, not long ago; I was in the Deep Roads all over again, facing a damned broodmother. [She shudders, as that first encounter was more terrifying to her than the one in Kal'Hirol.]