It's like holding a precious little thing, easily broken but warm and comforting at the same time. It should be ridiculous for a big monstrous warrior to have a little elf security blanket, but he had really fucked up on there and concentrating on making Beleth 'safe' really helped.

(He's definitely oblivious to any blushing right now.)

"No... not really. You hear about it a lot in the qunari army, but none of the 'Vints I ever fought on Seheron used any. At least as far as I know. Pretty sure most of them weren't even mages, or I'd be crispier."