"Um." His gaze goes a little distant as he recalls an ostentatious courtyard filled top to bottom with the cursed citizens of one nobleman's ploy for undeserved power. "Mean as in mean. So both those things. But that's just where I'm from, so I don't know what it's like elsewhere." He sighs briefly, but then smiles. "I'm glad it sounds like the guy in charge here is decent. And also I probably won't go accidentally running into him now that I'm here.

"...Right?"