A flat look across the table. No, Ellis has not made headway in much of anything in the midst of everything that's happened in the past few months.

However—

"Now that I'm able to be more easily spared, I will go to Skyhold to collect some of what I've been promised. And then find my way to Ansburg, for the rest."

What he might make of that, well.

There is a moment of clear calculation, where Ellis looks back across the table and sizes Richard up. There had been a point, even after the dream, but prior to Richard making this request of him, where Ellis would have asked his help in this without hesitation. But now he has to consider: would he truly receive the benefit of Richard's help, or not?

"I want to go to Weisshaupt, and see what I might find there. But that's not so easy."

It is, in fact, extremely dangerous.