He considers and discards twice in order to draw again.

"I was never stationed there permanently; they promptly put me on the first caravan to Kirkwall when I joined up." No sense lying about things that are easy to verify, Julius has always thought. "I've been to Skyhold a time or two on business since, though. It's beautiful, but a bit less lively than the Free Marches." Lively is one way to describe it. "I suspect we get better alcohol, since you don't have to transport it up a literal mountain."