Merril nodded a little to herself, following here and there. "And Hawke?" she finally asked, "Was she doing alright? It's... It's been a while since I've seen her and Anders isn't... Well, he's Anders. It's always hard to tell what kind of mood he's going to be in at any given moment and if he's going to feel much like sharing. I haven't wanted to make this whole place worse for him by prying about how she was when he last saw her too much."

Consciously missing Hawke wasn't at all going to help much with the trouble of Anders' moods or Justice for that matter.