[It's a slippery surface he's on and he knows there's a possibility he gets out of this smoothly and another (more likely) one where he ends up where Hawke's trying to get to anyway.]

I didn't have a chance to look around before I arrived here, I'd been locked in the fight, looking up wasn't wise at the time.

Besides, there's other leaders and healers on the field, I'm sure they did all they could.