"Seriously and literally! We're trapped underground by a magic barrier. Basically living our lives sealed in a giant tomb..." It's so morbid, yet said so matter-of-fact. Just one of those things you live with that doesn't seem so bad until you realize nobody else lives with it.

"But hey! We were almost free. And... that that got ruined. I'm not afraid of working hard, keeping going, and waiting untold generations for freedom... but some people, they're really bothered by it. So now I'm here! My year's labor is completely worth everybody's freedom. Without anybody else getting murdered!"