The solidarity is nice. I can tell some people here, I don't know, come from similar places? [He thinks of Dan and Stacia and how they were able to easily understand why he was freaking out and what he needed to calm down.]

[He does like that it's a group of people where maybe a lot of them can understand each other.]

Buuut I'm also the only troll that'd show up in a place like this, freak out, and take a hostage. And it's not like I wound up this way for good reasons.

I'm trying to work my way out of this eventually.

[He's self-aware enough to realize his "misfit"ness isn't a situation where he's odd because the village is rejecting him or something. They've welcomed him back with open arms and while they don't always understand his neuroses and idiosyncrasies they understand they're just a part of their friend. They even try their best to work around them or help him feel safe when he's freaking out over something.]

[No, he knows that in a lot of ways he's different because he's not exactly mentally healthy and he wants to be.]

[Being healthy may never make him as happy-go-lucky and carefree as the others but he can still get in his own version of a better place.]