That was one way to confuse Hawke. Those words just didn't seem to belong together in the slightest. For an Old God, Aedan was clearly on the unique side.
"Wait. He's an Old God and... he'd be nervous about meeting us? Isn't it normally the other way around?" Maybe that came with him being of the not-scary variety, which was a weird concept in itself. "I'd like to meet him. Won't even threaten to punch him or anything."