"I don't know where you're from, but it sounds like a... dull place to live. Not much living going on, you know what I mean?"

Duties. Training. Studying. That can't be all one does. That's no way for a person to live, especially a child... he can't help looking sympathetic, with his ridiculously expressive bony face. The bone almost moves like skin would.

"You just have to think of them differently. Their purpose is to make you happy."