“Why are they pounding the rice cakes?“

So you free the nice ones and imprison all the bad ones?”

He is traumatised due to being human trafficked when he was very young and the inherent trauma of being a slave even though he is treated ‘kindly’ and insists he is happy (he’s actually anxious with debilitating abandonment issues most of the time and has nightmares almost every night)

“Eugh. Gross and smelly.” >:P

and he’s the prince. I’ve heard some royalty would even execute people over that, but King Freinag is too kind.”

…He really had a warped view of what kindness was.

Unfortunately Thistle’s idea of abuse was ‘beats you up until you almost die or your bones break‘ and anything less than that seemed totally normal to him, given he was a medieval slave.

“What? You only got locked in your room? You didn’t even get beaten? Even Delgal gets beaten sometimes