Is it better or worse that they have no idea when they'll go back to their regularly-scheduled work of ending Blights and defeating darkspawn? If they knew the time and date, they might be able to better spend their time in the meanwhile, but... they would have to dread its approach. For now, they've got no idea one way or the other, which makes things perpetually climactic.

Ah, well. Things can always be worse.

"You ought to venture through the mirrors, then," she suggests, lightly. "They say that's where the Queen of Hearts lives. Though, then we would have to meet with your Mirror, and he may not be nearly so charming."