Arja listened with rapt attention as the man began to speak. She couldn't help the slight mischievious grin that crossed her face when she found he was answering each of them in turn. So used to just rapid firing questions at people so they could pick whichever sounded the most interesting, she hadn't realized that he'd puzzle each of them out. Honestly, it was kind of cute in a platonic way, and she found herself endeared to the stranger, with his serious face and quiet eyes. It made her a little sad that he wouldn't be staying around in Gwaren, but then it always made her sad to meet new people and have them leave. It's what made her both an excellent and terrible bartender. But she didn't have time for sadness, not when he was still there.
Darkspawn!? It could have been seen as highly inappropriate, but her smiled edged just a little larger. Already, he was marked down as 'fantastic' in her book. Anyone who fought darkspawn was. It probably stemmed a little from her idol worship of her mother, but that didn't really change the facts. He was a knight who fought darkspawn and appreciated music, she instantly felt like she wanted to keep him around just to have the awesome always be there. But then he wouldn't be out being adventurous and fighting darkspawn, so therein lied the problem.
“That's quite impressive Ser, we're lucky to have good men like you out fighting the beasts back! Are you in Gwaren to fight some?” There was always the chance that some had fled into the deep parts of the forest, but she'd not heard of it recently. Of course, most just liked to complain about the Dalish when they spoke of the forest, so she tended to tune them out. “If you're going in after them, you should take my mom with you.” The words were said with a matter-of-fact tone.
Careful to not overload the poor man with her incessant question rambling again, Arja actually took some time to think on what she'd say, something most would say she was incapable of doing. “A difficult battle you say?” A grand adventure she'd say. “Can you tell me more? Was it against darkspawn? What was it like? How many of there were you? I bet it was dreadfully cold there.” Anything with peak in the name would have to be right? “Was it a surprise attack or did you go there with a mission?” Clearly she needed more work on the 'not over doing the questions' portion of her brain.