She seems happy enough, but it sounds like this is a haven compared to her former life, or at least what he knows.

"I thrive everywhere," and as he says it, Valentino believes it. He'll have the run of this place in no time. He climbed his way up before and he can do it again. Or he can survive long enough to find the right fairy to gut to let him go home.

Speaking of, if she does end up down there, she'll get even alive (hopefully not literally).