[ [I'm gonna assume the theater welcome happened and if we need to adjust that we can]
Balthier is out at the theater returning a few items that were missed in the initial clean up and making an effort to thank the local team again. A thank you right after an event, when it's convenient, is appreciated but easy. Making an effort to appear again, in person, with a handwritten note shows effort. Sticks in people's minds. He's reaching back into his Archades days, all the etiquette and diplomacy details he hated at the time, and for once thankful for them.
It isn't that he never used them as a pirate; it was that he never had to truly consider the impact of burning bridges within a community he effectively could not leave. That had been the whole point of the leaving and the piracy, after all.
While he's waiting to speak with one of the busier director types, he spots Alina touring a Thessyx around. He hasn't seen much of her since the performance, but she seems at their sides every time he does. He makes no effort to interrupt, but pirate is as pirate does, and he manages to overhear the conversation -- and her disappointment. ]
Trying to run away with exciting strangers? Still sure you aren't a pirate in training?
And all children are stubborn and difficult, for the record. It is one of the three truths of the universe. [ This is an old wives tale in some town he can no longer recall, but good stories are treasures, too. ]
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Balthier is out at the theater returning a few items that were missed in the initial clean up and making an effort to thank the local team again. A thank you right after an event, when it's convenient, is appreciated but easy. Making an effort to appear again, in person, with a handwritten note shows effort. Sticks in people's minds. He's reaching back into his Archades days, all the etiquette and diplomacy details he hated at the time, and for once thankful for them.
It isn't that he never used them as a pirate; it was that he never had to truly consider the impact of burning bridges within a community he effectively could not leave. That had been the whole point of the leaving and the piracy, after all.
While he's waiting to speak with one of the busier director types, he spots Alina touring a Thessyx around. He hasn't seen much of her since the performance, but she seems at their sides every time he does. He makes no effort to interrupt, but pirate is as pirate does, and he manages to overhear the conversation -- and her disappointment. ]
Trying to run away with exciting strangers? Still sure you aren't a pirate in training?
And all children are stubborn and difficult, for the record. It is one of the three truths of the universe. [ This is an old wives tale in some town he can no longer recall, but good stories are treasures, too. ]