"No, I promise you, Fenris. Varric surprised me with Hawke's presence. I had no idea that he was going to arrive at Skyhold until Varric told me he had a friend who wanted to speak with me." He sounds very sincere, not wanting to leave a misunderstanding between him and the only other Thedosian elf he's seen.

"I did what I could to bring him safely back to you. I..." He left Stroud instead, but that feels so terrible to say. "The things we experienced due to what the Wardens were doing still haunt me. I wouldn't want Hawke to suffer the same fate of so many that night."