[It's the complicated stuff that he's leaving out, like the real reason he was in the Grasslands, for example. The personal stuff. He nods.]

Not too bad, right? I wish I could make it like this... [He shrugs. It's not like he was really invested in his cooking skills anyway.] It did work, however. It took quite a bit of convincing, but I got through to them eventually. We were still far from a real army, but it was kind of nice to see all of those different people working together, I guess.