It wasn't that he was on duty, exactly. More that he was just curious, with all the arrivals to Skyhold, so he'd positioned himself on the bridge to watch as they were brought in. The laughter caught his attention. It wasn't something he'd heard much of, the last few days. Everyone had been very grim, since Haven. So when he heard it he slipped from his seat on the stone wall and padded his way over to the cart, his bow over his shoulder, to see who it belonged to.

He smiled when he saw it was an elf.

"I think I either missed a lot, without hearing the context of that joke, or absolutely nothing at all."