[She takes the cup, grateful, though doesn't sip it right away.]

In relative terms, yeah. It was soon after I'd arrived, for sure, maybe three or four months? There'd been a few rifters who'd been there a little more than a year, I think. That was part of ... a group of us had gone to close a couple of rifts in Orlais. There were, [she thinks] eight of us, I'm pretty sure. A couple natives, but mostly it was rifters, because part of the point was for the more experienced ones to teach us new kids about rift-closing. It was supposed to be an easy mission.