You could have written about it.

[Do they have 'the pen is mightier than the sword' as a saying, in Orlais? They don't in the Free Marches. Bellamy is thinking something along those lines regardless, enough that he gives her half a smirk.]

Next time the chance comes up, just don't get yourself assigned to me for protection. I already carried you to the healer's tents. I don't want to have to follow that up with carrying you off a battlefield.