( gathering her skirts, she sits — the dog settles nearby, between the table they're at and the nearest exit, angled to be alert. )

Dreamless sleep has several obvious applications right away, ( she says, thoughtful, thinking of — everything she's ever read about susceptibility to demonic possession. she's been here too long, seen too much to imagine that the recipe would be an easy one to one replication; some things have obvious equivalents but more than that don't. more often than not, foreign magic works by its own unique ways and rules and doesn't easily translate to thedas,

but the idea is interesting. maybe there's an equivalent that she just hasn't heard of due to its complexity, so maybe they'd be rediscovering something someone else has already cracked, but even still—

she is so accustomed to her own nightmares, to managing her own panic, that that isn't what occurs to her. no, she thinks of: could they protect brand new rifter mages who don't know what to guard against in their dreams? give them a potion for the first night or two, give someone time to explain, during the day. that one elf rifter that's a bit touched in the head, wasn't there something about his sleep? he could probably do without dreams for a night. And: )

Could that be used as a surgical sedative, or is it only to sleep...?

( hm. slightly unhinged thing to say to a stranger. clarifying, )

We do have options for sedating someone if we need to. Don't worry you're about to be solely responsible for discovering one. I'm only thinking out loud.