"Everyone on said suicide mission survived, with sanity more or less intact," Martel points out, mercilessly, as they walk. "And as a direct result, a Guild offered you placement."

He's still not sure how he became respectable - while simultaneously knowing exactly how and having been quietly masterminding it for the sake of leading a life less irritating - and as such is sidestepping it to take this opportunity to needle Balthier with reality.