Krem shrugged a little, honest and speculative at the idea. He looked a little sheepish. "He comes from a place like Darrow, a modern one. They seem to do things like that? I'd never heard the term before, until Eowyn said it the other day."

He shifted his hand to his arm, where the stitches were still in his arm from taking her blade. He still felt a little childish for reacting the way he had.

"We don't do that back in Tevinter, though some are..." He gestured vaguely, then said, slipping into Tevene, "Attached." He didn't have a better word for it. "Not betrothed, or wedlocked. They will still be open with themselves. I don't think people in these modern places like that very much."