Had Balthier foolishly voiced that thought, Martel would opine that surely the little prince could find someone prettier, but he's probably just envious of his friend's ability to pull off all that jewellery when his one ill-advised attempt at an earring mostly made him look like he was playing dress-up, badly.

(Krager felt that ill-advised burst of laughter for weeks after.)

Anna was holding onto something for him, for a living space or just a bolthole he might need one day; he misses her more than he cares to closely examine, and pushes the thought aside as something he can do no good for now. "I'm looking about here, at present," he says instead. "It'll be something like convenient."

For at least one of his jobs - and with Kalten, convenience of Sobek Croix is less of a worry than it might otherwise be. God bless him (any god), ill-advised namesake and all.

Brock Marsh is also pleasantly familiar, in that it's full of intellectual madmen.