She indulges in his kissing her, one hand coming up out of the water to cup his cheek, soapy trails being left on his skin in the wake of her fingers. She could stay like this forever, wrapped up in their own world. She had sometimes pretended as a child that she shared her space with another person, her family mostly, but as she'd aged there had been the occasional thought of someone she had chosen to be her family, rather than someone bound to get by blood. The reality is different, but with Ben it feels almost effortless at times. They understand one another well, and living with him has just felt like where she belongs.

"We left Skyhold partly because of the population, but also because a group of people were... They ended up in the future, and they had intel from the future versions of those of us who were left behind that Corypheus was building a Navy, and we needed Kirkwall to combat that." Some days it seemed less like they were working towards that than others.