Bart nods, reaching for one of the other dishes and spooning some heavy-looking bread stuffing onto his plate. He still doesn't necessarily have the stomach for a lot of meat.

"Before this, I lived for so long with only my father and this woman that he hired to protect us. Before that, he didn't like us associating with anyone in a lower tax bracket from him." There is a distinct bitterness to the way he says that. "So this has been...different, to say the least."