"Surprisingly." She was a little stiff in her gait but little else, her demeanor as light as usual, despite the suspicious circumstances. "I packed most of my clothes from home when I left and I didn't have much to choose from that was clean when I came back." One of her breeches had rhinestones on them and she wasn't going to wear them to a potentially serious meeting.

She shook her head but did as he offered, taking a seat at the table. "I'm all right. I'm used to long bouts of traveling." She'd just been out of practice at it, woefully so, and she had already vowed never to let that happen again. "Whatever you've made, it smells good." Rice and some kind of glaze, it seemed, which...probably wouldn't be enough to satisfy her Grey Warden appetite, but she wasn't here for a full meal.

"Thank you." Elissa reached to put some rice into her bowl, nodding. "A small mountain range. I couldn't cross it just then and I might try again in the spring when it warms up. But I got a good look at the land itself."