Yes. [ Lasulahn certainly thought the former, while he remembers Cassandra's words 'I will not pretend you were not exactly what we needed, when we needed it'. ]

Well, there is always a risk for things to go awry, being around human affairs- particularly being both Dalish and a mage. She received a letter from someone that I was being held prisoner by the Left and Right Hands of the Divine, though the situation was a bit different by the time her reply made it back to Haven.