One of the things that happens after you die and become a hideous hybrid demonic creature and live for a few thousand years is a strange modification of your memory: Balthazar remembers lots of things, but not always with the greatest of detail. He is, however, good with faces, good at recognizing individuals — the ability to see people for what they are, generally speaking, is a great help there too.

So William is recognizable from Megan's party, but he has yet to connect that face with the brief text conversation they had on the network. In turn, Balthazar adjusts the field of illusions he constantly wears so that he looks more or less as he had at the party, apart from his clothing — then, it'd been more informal, but right now he's back in a three piece suit. As he passes William along the street, he pauses to do a theatrical doubletake.

"Don't I know you from somewhere?" He says it with a broad, oil slick pleasant smile.