[ Balthier absolutely catches that Bucciarti is too smart, too dry, and too calculating to be just a tax collector. He's impressed and files that away. ]

Hard to make friends when you're boring and take all their money.

[ Or their liberties and lives -- the job Balthier was supposed to have. That feels like a lifetime ago. ]

What do you say we life some heavy parcels and scope out the building, eh?

[[ ooc:happy to keep going, or happy to hand wave their task. I feel like they got a good intro to each other :) ]]