"It was quiet. Very quiet, punctuated by small periods of intense amounts of terror. People had very little patience for a small child with a tendancy to shriek in amusement at the smallest thing."

He takes a bite of the omelette, somewhat sobre.

"So the tutors... I tended to ignore, or attend, depending how interested I was at the moment. Oberon didn't care either way."

He then pauses to consider the proposition-

"Am I allowed to tie you up? Or will you be trusted to remain still?"