If it's that hard on you, perhaps it would be useful to make a pact to keep ourselves honest with. As long as you keep doing your best to play along with the farce, I will keep doing my best not to maim any of these idiots, and vice versa.

[ pause ]

Hm, upon rereading that sounds like a threat. Ah well.

[ pause again. He does not correct himself to make it sound like less of a threat. Look, being in a noble court where he can't legally kill most people who annoy him is a new experience for him okay. ]

The water is nice. I've not visited a city where the streets were all canals before. Hadn't expected to have such a genuinely unique experience on this planet.