"Their customs are... unusual."

Said with a tone that implies unpleasant. He unfolds one arm enough to gesture vaguely.

"I preferred Taravast. There may have been a revolution and an attack, but we were at least briefly given quarters in the palace there."

Honestly, much nicer treatment than whatever is going on here. Force fed cursed liquid and bundled away into weird houses, made to atone for obscure ancestors.