Signy had kept her seat when Beth had stood, though her eyes followed the mage around the room, watching attentively as the mage and her candlestick moved from shelf to shelf. If she had been standing beside Bethen, she might have been able to make out the titles without the help of the candle—low light was the natural environment for her eyes, after all, and since coming to the surface Signy had begun to learn that this was not the case for other races, which made sense now that she thought on it. When the book came back, she leaned forward, curious—curious and slightly regretting it, for it looked a large book and probably full of dense chunks of words and long tangents and ancestors only knew what else. (What Bethe said, about it not being a light read, rather confirmed the worry.)
But unlike study with Dagna, Signy had the feeling there was nobody here who she could pester for a synopsis without seeming like a child dallying from lessons—she didn't think there would be, at least. Perhaps it'd have pictures to break it up, at least, or be.... exciting. Dagna had (what Signy considered, at least) a terrible love of old Tevinter texts on magic. "Thank you," she said, and glanced back up. "Maybe it will explain more than just spirits," she added. "Terms like... Say, like Veil. I can guess what you're talking about but I've only ever heard that in passing. Is it actually something important, or just a sort of... a flowery way of saying go into the Fade, go out of the Fade?"
It might have been something else, something wildly important to surfacers, for all she knew. Signy had the sudden impression that living on the surface was going to involve more studying than living with Dagna had. She was not yet sure if that was a good or a bad thing. Probably both.
"You said, just then... how would you get into the Fade along with someone else? Would sleeping nearby each other do it?" Other than that, Signy could not think of a way—for all that it had changed her, when she thought of lyrium she still thought first of enchanting and smithing, and only after a moment did she add thoughts of magic or the Fade.