She surrenders her possession of the snake almost without thinking, her hand moving automatically to meet his so she might carefully extricate herself from its coils. It's only after she's motioned to do so that she thinks to regret it - maybe the snake will disappear back up Mr. Dickerson's sleeve and so elude further examination -, but by then it both seems too late to change her mind and she is already invested in turning over his question:

"It's difficult to say. The magic in Thedas is unlike the magic in Kalvad, as is the enchantment on your snake is different from both, and so there are things— well, it cannot be studied the same way, and where at home I might be able to touch it, as it were, I haven't quite sorted how to interact with spellwork here yet. But—"

Here, she stops. A brief hesitation as the garter snake unwinds from her hand. "—my own, er, work I suppose seems as it ever was. Why? Does she work differently here than she did where you came from? Have you altered somehow? Your companion mentioned having changed in appearance, did he not?"

Single questions are apparently not within her capacity as a conversationalist. And then, before he can answer any of the half dozen she has proposed to him, she adds, "Mr. Dickerson, I would greatly appreciate it if this were to stay between us. This is of course all within my records, but I have no interest in being involved in the debates which sometimes occur in the Gallows with respect to Circles and mages and so on."