Not exactly a warm welcome, but he hasn't done anything to merit one either. He doesn't back down, exactly, but there's something a little gentler in his tone, just this side of apologetic. Whatever she thinks this is going to be, what he has to offer may not actually be better.

"I want to be sure you know about the danger Tevinter poses to anchor-bearers." His hands are in gloves, the weather brisk enough to merit it, but he still briefly lifts his own shard hand. "I've found out recently it wasn't exactly a part of the new rifter orientation."