I’ll write something up for you, and your thoughts interest me. Arakeen motifs are not the same as Terran ones. [Though influences from Old Earth cultures were still present.]

You see, then? A gilded cage is still, at the end of the day, a cage. I feel freer in my home in Los Angeles, small as it is, than in my palace. It gives my flight feathers space to grow back.

[Paul hadn’t been able to call himself happy in a very long time. Happiness is an alien feeling to him, but one which is slowly seeping back inside him again. There’s an energy and life to him now that the Preacher never had.]