Falina shifted the cloak over her legs, drawing them up to tuck carefully beneath her, not wanting them to merely dangle over the edge of the bench. "Seeing them is half the battle? I guess the rest of it's mixed up between hearing the humming and doing the actual fighting bits." She'd heard the scrape and scuffle of rusted armor against stone, and she'd heard the cold droning, a horrible noise if not only in tenor, but in menace.
Her only encounter with darkspawn had been as a child, and she'd hidden behind an outcropping of rock as Nivak ended them. It had been a quick battle, and to be fair, she been too afraid to look and unaware of how many there were. But now Falina saw them, and while she was a dwarf, she was afraid. Even though Cormac and Ordhan and 'the others' would be there, Nivak was heading in a completely separate direction. They weren't friends, and while they may never be, she still remembered how eagerly she'd entrusted her life to him in the Roads. He was something that she didn't understand, but someone that she knew.
Falina was surrounded by new faces, some growing dearer and dearer, but while there was faith in them, they weren't tethered to her past. Cormac brought his own comfort, a steady form in her periphery, solid, and even his gruff demeanor had a steadying hand on her nerves. Ordhan, the newest face of all, seemed as still as water, and as gentle as any person she'd ever met.
The forest brought a small smile, and she nodded. "I heard some strange stories too." The walking trees hadn't bothered her as much as the giant bears, but she supposed wonder and fear were relative, subjective entirely to the viewer. "The Warden-Commander says that there are. I heard some creaking, some of the wood groaning like it was talking, but they never attacked. Alistair said that they were sneaky though." Alistair said many things.
"We passed through, Cormac said there were giant bears, huge ones as tall as houses, but the only thing I saw were Templars and elves. And insects. I hate insects." Just the memory of them made the hair on her arms stand on end.