Mafyyil quickly follows. "Oh, it's all wooonderful, everybody's so lovely!" Two blatant lies, since I'm in quite a lot of pain and I have §%"&§ aphids, so what do you think? seems slightly undiplomatic. This Barbarian already seems to dislike her, and she doesn't want to make the situation worse. "I mean, I think it, um, will be wonderful, as soon as I get the chance to do my duty properly. I'll make good for my failure to be complete, I promise!" She's gritting her teeth there, but, well, clearly she can't blame anyone else for her own shortcomings, not even a Barbarian. She's decided to regard Barbarians as persons, at least as a working hypothesis. So, better to show manners and some enthusiasm. "I already wrote a poem for the start of our journey, tractors in the early morning sun of holy barley fields, I think it's quite fitting!"
Re: cultural literacy: paging Iawa, Ione, and Mafyyil