She is not someone who seeks validation from just anywhere, but from people she cares about it's as important as shelter, as warmth in general; when she hears exactly her own reasoning from Astarion, umprompted, and Jacob's agreement...

She doesn't beam at them, but her smile settles deeper and truer. It's a bittersweet ache, and one she treasures.

"Normally we'd eat and drink and dance through the night, celebrating the family we still have." That won't happen here, for multiple reasons. "Could I - could we. It doesn't need to be any of that, but whatever it is. Could we stay together tonight?"

It feels precarious, somehow, to just ask - but she's come to trust them, so ask she does.