Annie tilted her head at Eleanor's response. 'Kind'? Huh. That was the first time anyone had described her as that... and why was she apologizing? [color=6ecff6]"I mean, this situation isn't all that bad,"[/color] she said brightly. [color=6ecff6]"Everyone's polite... enough."[/color] She added the last bit when she remembered that blood-drinking man's atrocious manners, grimacing a little before moving on. [color=6ecff6]"We all got a nice meal, slept in proper beds, nobody's thrown us into a lake with anchor tied to us, or locked us in a metal chest, or threatened to feed us to a kraken..."[/color] She counted each of these reasons off her fingers, each with same casual, cheery tone.