At least Hawke didn't jump up to grab weapons, or anything. Melora had dropped her mother's hair to instead play with the edges of the woman's sleeve. "I didn't really even think about that. I feel safe when I'm with Aedan. I was more worried about him." Of course, she would've been in a lot of trouble if anything had happened to Aedan. She probably would've been the first to get smooshed, just based on proximity.
"He's amazing, Mom. He makes me feel like the most important person in the universe." She'd gone all doe-eyed, and sounded an awful lot like Merill when she spoke of him like that.