Hawke's first thought was that this wasn't Adamant Fortress. For a while after she stepped out of that cloud -- the Fade or something else? -- she just held onto that thought. Her mind was drawing a blank for a lot of things she thought she should know, like the details of where she just was. Part of her thought that was her coping mechanism. Her life wasn't much of a great show at any rate.

As time went on, she began to sense that there was more to this than she had first thought. After asking for directions to the nearest city, she was told she was in a place called Australia. Most people were kind enough to try to help her and they tried to get her to stay in the city -- Sydney? -- but she refused. Most of the four months she has spent in Australia have been in the wilds. Electricity? If that's even what it is. That's scary to her and she isn't yet convinced that this isn't a trick of the Fade or that there aren't mages responsible for the electricity stuff.

She may or may not also have left a trail of spiders in her wake. Granted, she's glad these aren't anywhere near as big as the ones in Thedas. They're still spiders and they're still large enough to hit with Winter's Grasp.

For the last month or so, she has also been fighting wildfires and wildlife and whatever else needs to be done and doing a fairly good job of it when she can manage Winter's Grasp. This time, though, she dives in to save someone, pulling the woman away from the burning hillside and focusing first on healing her.

"You're going to be fine," she says, stepping between her charge and the fire. What she wouldn't do for a friend right about now.