She looked down at the young man as he spoke, seeming to slip back into his own memories of home and his family as he spoke of honor. "He seems like a wise sort, if he said that and meant it. Were you close to your brother? I have no siblings myself. I always wondered what it might be like." She smiled slightly, but there was a flash of bitterness in his eyes and it gave her pause. She felt the strange urge to offer him comfort, though she hardly knew him. She wouldn't know what was troubling or even what to do or say, so instead she pressed her free hand gently upon his shoulder for the briefest of moments before letting it drop to her side.
The night was still around them, hardly even a breeze, and though she heard the chirping of crickets and the faint call of other nocturnal animals, the sounds of their steps through the short grass and over the damp earth. She took in a long breath and then let her gaze slide sideways down at him as he spoke again, looking oh-so-innocent with that face and the impish fall of blond hair across his brow. She chuckled slightly and stilled, her eyes moving once more to the distance.
"Let's just say I too was once a girl her age with her first crush." She wasn't really one for dancing around, and so she saw no reason to play coy with Rhocanth. She knew well enough the sort of blossoming feeling that must be drifting between him and Falina, though they were only very faint yet, and who knew how long they would even be in one another's company. It seemed things were changing daily with these Grey Wardens.
"But I also think she's probably rather unexperienced. You aren't, are you?"