"And obviously he can't talk about what he can't talk about. Fun."

"Sometimes I can think my way around it but I'm not... very good at thinking my way around things."

"That's a mindscrew of a curse. We'll have to see what we can do about it."

"Did you just say mindscrew."

"Shut up."

"...?"

"He doesn't swear," Asher explains, "because he is a goody-two-shoes."

Somehow the first response that comes to mind is, "What kind of a king doesn't say fuck???"

"One from Auradon."

(He's amused.)

"Your country sure is something."

"I don't have very many functionally run countries to compare it to!"

"Saying fuck will probably not make you any better at running a country, anyway. It's just weird." He sounds a little affectionate there.

"If I started saying fuck what would Asher tease me about?"

"Good point."

Definitely a little affectionate. And his smile may be small but it's the happiest he's looked since he got here.

"We do have to figure out a place for you to stay."

He shrugs. "I don't... think I care very much? Wherever's convenient."

Then Ben will take him to a spare bedroom in a corner of his castle and not Auradon Prep. 

On the way there, Tazalkyran might notice that everything seems like a bizarre mix of medieval and modern: there are castles and armor, but people are wearing blue jeans and talking on cell phones. 

Yeah, he definitely notices that. The medieval elements are sort of half-familiar—stylistically different from what he's used to, but broadly recognizable in form and function—but he's never seen a cellphone before and blue jeans are pretty strange too.

The apartment Ben leads him to has such unfamiliar things as a television set, a video game system, a refrigerator, a stove, a microwave, and a laptop computer. 

"???"

"Sorry to run," Ben says, "but I'm afraid I have to go talk to the Chinese about some complicated trade stuff. I'll be back soon and Asher can answer any of your questions."

"—sure, of course—"

"What's the 'what the fuck' expression about?"

He... gestures helplessly at all of the things.

"You don't know what any of this shit is?"