[ This is terrible. He's so eager to avoid going back, but she'll have to do it eventually. He can't just live in the garden--probably. Petra might take issue with that. ]

Is there a lot of nature in the city? Trees, flowers, things like that. Kirkwall barely has any, it's so dreary. I don't know how people stand it.

[ Part of her wants to ask about the situation of the elves there, if there are alienages--or if there are even enough free elves for that. But she doubts she wants to hear the answer, and she knows she doesn't want to hear it from him. ]