I'm a well read grad student who's bluntly honest about all things, although I try to be most honest about myself.
Everyone is trying to figure out what they're going to do: stay, go, or just enjoy the moment? For all that, tension comes with people stalking Prince Robot IV - yup, still refuse to think of him as anything but a prince, even though he calls him Sir Robot because I liked him more as a Prince, to be honest.
The journalists take the deal that Robot warns them not to, and he's going to get new bodies for him, Petri, and Squire Robot. Bodies that will hide them from the wrath of things like the Robot Kingdom and those that Prince Robot IV has wronged in the past.
Squire wants to stay with Hazel, but getting the new bodies means going, so there's definitely tension between the small familial groups.