It wasn't right to see Zevran like this. Seeing anyone suffering tended to cause the healer's chest to tighten, but with the elf... Simon realized he didn't know the man all that well. Zevran was older than him, had been through a great deal more, but what Simon did know told him that it should have been enough. There was an extra bitter layer of injustice to what had happened to Zevran, the man had already suffered.

'Ten years', he'd said...

"You're in Skyhold, the people who hurt you, they're..." Simon didn't know the full story. He'd heard rumors, knew more or less the people who had gone to find the assassin and bring him back, and with that information it felt very safe to conclude: "...they're not coming back."