[ She doesn't want to smile about it. It feels much more appropriate to maintain her usual mask of formality here in a strange world, at a distinct disadvantage, not only speaking to an enemy but sitting in his living quarters.

But it somehow gratifies her just a little to have a Faerghan perspective on it, something she has lacked all this time, and a reluctant smile threatens the corners of her mouth. ]

I didn't know that but he presented it to me with the wish that I cut my own path--

[ She struggles to vividly recall so many memories from that time of her life but not that one. Never that one. She can almost picture his earnest blue eyes perfectly.

Dimitri's eyes are a similar shade. ]

--so, yes, I believe you must be correct.