[Ah. So maybe there were questions about how her people did things too. He feels bad for her - it must be hard learning that maybe your people aren't everything you believed them to be. Yet even with such doubts, being separated from the place she thinks of as home couldn't be easy.]

You were exiled from your home? I'm sorry. I can't imagine what that would be like. [Alistair winces. That sounds so insincere but he doesn't know what else he can say. Her grouchy attitude makes more sense now - though he's definitely not saying that. He's not that tactless.] ...Have you been away from it long?