The anger is noted, and filed away. Duke is fairly certain it is for the topic, not for him, and so it doesn't bother him. He'd be angry at the castle too, if he didn't feel like it was pointless. "Often true. I believe the search outside the walls is to look into a similar castle that tried things differently, and now stands empty and.. as dead as a building can be." Duke needs to think on that last.

"I believe there are some. I admit that I have not left the castle often, but there is a town where some choose to live, and there are people who live there that are not of pulled origins. I have not spoken with them."