Val snorts, as stretches out his arm to grab for the sugar bowl again. "And what is that. Darkspawn? Brooding? Leaving town?"

There is a kind of comfortable symbiosis to the pouring of tea without him having to ask for it. This, then, is why Val does not offer a word of thanks, but starts dumping sugar straightaway as he continues their conversation.

"You do know that there are many of our number who are good at travelling. I do not see why Mister Ellis," a name that he manages to pronounce in a highly Orlesian way, despite it being a very non-Orlesian name, "should come so highly recommended."