He winces, visibly. But he can't bring himself to apologize for the slip either, if only because it would only be drawing further attention to the fact that he's starting to give up hope that he'll ever see his friends here and is just waiting until he finally gets to go home.

So yeah, more animals. Let's go.

"They feed them chickens? Isn't that...scary for children to watch?"

He would have been horrified when he was twelve, that's for sure.