Primrose blushed and bit her lip. "It's not that there is anything wrong with potatoes. They're not unsafe to eat of course. I wouldn't serve them to you if they were. It's just that I don't find them tasteful. Um...most people do, my father loved them. But I just find them to be very bland, um without taste. Putting lots of herbs and spices on them to make them taste better just seems a waste to me."
The woman sighed and smiled, playing with her food a little bit as she remembered things of the past. It was true that her father loved potatoes. Primrose could still remember the tricks her father would play sometimes to get her to eat them. He was always convinced that she would like them and it was just a phase. Decades later and she still did not find the agreeable.
The thoughts made her smile as did Alerri's words. Despite her perceived failings, her guest was happy and claimed to feel right at home. That was at least a pleasant relief for her. Being asked more questions only made her feel better on top of it and she was eager to answer them.
"Work is...what...people do...to get things...done. And," Primrose spoke slowly as she tried to figure out how to explain concepts that to her just were. It was not something that she ever really found herself having to explain and that fact actually intrigued her. She had a feeling that she would have more of these talks and could not wait for the future, whatever it might hold.
"As for spoiled well...there are two meanings. Generally it means that something has gone bad. When it's food, then it is too rotten to eat. When it is a child though or a person then spoiled means that the individual was never punished for doing anything wrong or they did whatever they wanted and were given whatever they wanted without consequence. For myself I meant that I was never made to work. I had a...good life, a privileged life," the noblewoman said with bowed head, her fork furiously stirring her food around her plate without regard to the actual mess she was creating.
"I'm sorry Alerri."