After Sildar discloses his affiliation with The Lords' Alliance over breakfast, Vala takes her tea cup, flips it, rotates it three times clockwise, and rights it again. Asks if she's foolish to trust him.
Question: am I a fool to trust this man?
Reading: She finds the rune for Unknown at the base, and along the sides a series of links in a Chain broken in places then reformed in long stretches. Near the rim, an Anchor and a Shield .
Taken Meaning: great suffering in the past, and then rising from it a stalwart protector. She is unsure of what events the chain represents, what he broke and reforged, but the anchor and shield in the future speak to her ability to trust him beyond all reason.