So apparently Carol's name has been changed to Kal.

The punishment was overly harsh but it was completely Elle's fault and the queen didn't do anything stupid at all. If one is to guard a lake then there is obviously a reason for it to be guarded. Throwing something in it is the opposite of guarding it. It is doing the very thing you are supposed to be preventing. If you would do the same thing in that situation then you would be just as in the wrong as Elle. It's really not that hard a concept to understand even just from the words "guard this lake". The queen gave at the very least enough information that knowing what not to do should have been obvious. If your employer told you to guard a safe it's honesty obvious they wouldn't want you to open it. Same if you were asked to guard/watch a house. It's obvious they are not saying you can make a mess of things in the house. As much as I hate to say it Elle was the stupid one in that situation for not thinking before acting.

It definitely sounded better when they used honorifics in the previous translation than in this new translation.

I'm not really a fan of some of these changes in these newer chapters. Particularly in names or how some characters are referred to in different ways now. Like why is Mei now called Baah? It's definitely obvious someone else took over.

The main character never told him not to as far as I can tell. Probably only told him about Laila's race. He is still the one who decides whether or not he can look past the differences.

I guess the egg really was Mee's after all.

Watch it not actually be Mee's egg but an egg Mee found, that then hatches into a dragon. I can totally see that happening. Lol.