[ me, knowing what happens to wardens with the calling: it can't be that bad!
ari: it's bad ]

... [ it's affection week but that isn't the major motivator for zhongli to reach out and squeeze hawke's upper arm, seeing him squeezing his hands like that. that's a lot. ]

I am sorry to hear that such a thing exists in your world, Mister Hawke, and that you have seen it for yourself what it does to others. But... it does give us some idea of what the General might have been going through, whether it was an outside force or something within him.