Zevran rarely says anything about Taliesin that doesn't make Alistair want to bring him back to life and kill him again, so he doesn't say it out loud. He only frowns and nods, swallowing hard. Even if it hadn't been weird and sort of embarrassing in hindsight, it won't happen again.

"I'd never hurt you, you know," he says. He couldn't even hurt him when Zevran was nothing but a man who'd just tried to kill them and was too unconscious to be endearing. "You can be a difficult, infuriating bastard all you want. I don't stop caring about you when you're annoying." Mild teasing turns into full teasing as he reaches out a boot to nudge Zevran's. "That's true love."