At the mention of Arya's brother's name, Aeolyn stopped and so did Arya's breathing. Not like when she had her claustrophobic attacks - no, this was more of a Old Gods, really? feeling. The thought that her luck might actually be turning around on her was too good to be true. All these years, all these horrible events, and finally one small kernel of good news and she was almost unwilling to believe it. Because the moment she believed it was the moment it would be snatched away and broken into a million pieces. Despite the guttering of hope in her breast, a shocked expression painted its way onto her face.
"You...what? I..." The words dribbled out of her mouth, unable to make a coherent sentence. Finally, real proof, someone who had seen Terin with their own eyes, had spoken with him, had been there for him when she hadn't been able to. Although she had spoken to others about her family in the short time she'd been in Denerim, she suddenly felt that she'd found the first real link to her past. The first though she was trying to process was the fact that he was even alive; although she'd been hoping and praying that she wasn't the last Oros, there was a dark bit of doubt in the back of her mind that it would certainly fit with the rest of her life for everyone else to have died. Haldir, her parents, Sellion, Mathias crippled and left behind... But no, her brother was alive and whole and with the Dalish.
"I...I don't even know what to say...he's...this is...wonderful!" She wanted to jump up and down in excitement, throw her arms in the air and twirl, so palpable was her joy. "He's living with Lanaya's clan? A hunter, and you said bonded? You mean he's married? Oh, I...I can barely believe this..." As the thoughts sank in more and more, she almost needed to sit down. She took a deep breath, pressing a hand to her chest to ward off any sudden attacks, but she was grinning like a fool. She had family, in the Brecilian Forest. Before she'd been chasing a rumor, a faint ghost, but now she knew there was something for her and all she had to do was go and find it.