Seven years pass before Sten sees the Warden again.
She has run into some minor problems with the Qunari authorities outside Rivain, yet by the time Sten arrives (following the rumor of a Fereldan woman with a large dog and hoping, but not really expecting, that it is her), she has talked herself neatly out of trouble. She turns around and seems ready to depart when she sees him as well.
It is easy to note all the different ways she remains unchanged and all the subtle differences. Her hair is much longer and her skin is tanned. Small wrinkles have appeared on her face, worry lines and crow's feet. She holds herself with more confidence than ever before and her hands are calloused. She is older and more mature, but she is still young by human standards and her nervous energy has turned into infectious vitality.
She travels still, he finds out eventually. She never truly stopped, after defeating the Archdemon, and she passes herself off as a wandering scholar wherever she can. She has new travelling companions, still as diverse and unlikely as her old ones (a Chasind woman; a boy from the Anderfels; an exiled Tevinter mage; an old sailor; a dwarf outlaw). Sten remembers a time when he thought she had missed her destiny and while he still remembers the regret that she had not been born Qunari, or at least male, he thinks that regret was misplaced, because she has found her destiny and she is living it now.
She enjoys doing this, wandering from place to place and helping those weaker than herself or otherwise in need, and she is quite adept at it, as well. It is a strange life for a strange woman, but fitting all the same.
Twenty years pass before Sten sees the Warden again.