"The contracts we signed were to work for the carnival. Maybe we're prisoners, but not his. Besides, I don't know what the Prince was thinking if he expected to bring this group in and have them behave perfectly."

Really, though, he loves the carnival and the people there, but...

"Unless, of course, that was what he was expecting. In which case, I guess he's even more of a contemptible bastard than I'd thought."