This is not an answer she expects. She frowns, considering it--and thinking of a conversation many weeks old, Derrica attempting to explain Circles to her. She had said little about the one she came from, had instead asked about Nevarra. Laura had not thought about it, the way the conversation had shifted so--she had been overwhelmed by the volley of responses she'd received--but she does now.

"The Chantry was unhappy with everyone's Circle," she offers, with all the same confidence she'd discuss the price of boar's meat in Val Royeaux. These are places she has never been, full of arguments she'd never known about before coming to Kirkwall. But this is the sense she has gotten from what others have said. There is a pause, and then--tentatively--she adds, "But unhappier with yours?"