Ned barks a quip of laughter and shakes his head appreciatively. She hasn't made the best case for it, now, but he rather appreciates her honesty - however blunt it might be. Given the most recent events in his previous life, honesty feels a bit like an unattainable dream - it's nice, he thinks, to be reminded that it's a possibility, that not everyone is so entrenched and blackened out by manipulation and greed and betrayal.

"There would be many who would say that me and my kin prefer the miserable, grimy, and awful, I believe."