[ Romelle probably ends up listening far more intently to what Josephine is saying than Lavellan himself is, but the words are so foreign to her that she doesn't really retain much of the meaning anyway. The universe is vast but with the few people from off-colony she met so far, they at least had some common framework of knowledge. The Galran empire, a few other terms...

On this planet meanwhile it's like she is truly stranded in a wholly different world, secluded from all that shaped her reality. She is curious to the same degree that it makes her feel lost.

Though she doesn't understand what kind of offense Lavellan is intending to make to people by wearing blue, it does make her laugh quietly as she slips away from the conversation alongside him.

The throne room immediately shifts her mood back to serious however. ]

What makes it so that you can't leave? The people... they think they need you, but aren't they just refusing to face themselves through that?