Leliana hadn't seen this bird before, but she'd certainly be keeping an eye out for them. Though she couldn't say that she truly understood Cole - he had experienced more of their lives than she had, and she didn't know him so well yet - Leliana knew a few things about him, and they were all that she needed to know. Little else mattered, until this. Someone doubted him, or had hurt him - they'd made him doubt himself.

"Helping people does not hurt them." It can sometimes if advice goes wrong, but that wasn't how Cole helped them. He touched, took away pain. That was not a bad thing - that didn't hurt them.

"You helped the Inquisition before you knew us. Many would have been lost otherwise." And that was partly why she'd been intrigued enough to want to listen to him again - that and his curious situation.