>>533960842
That exact line is the one I was talking about, she's smiling sure but she doesn't SOUND happy, especially when you contrast it against her characterization and her voice work in 2.1 and 2.2.
Nala is acting in the way expected of her as a coldhearted assassin which is how she's been used for literal years, she slowly gets more and more tastes of freedom through the bars and starts to turn back to how she was before she was kept as a slave and it's extremely consistent.