No real hope for me then [ Balthier teases with a smile that says he's not actually unhappy about it. It's nice, to think about Otto and Rosie having had a long happy marriage. That wasn't something he'd spent much time around, given his parents' fraught one. He was sad for Otto though. He couldn't imagine the loss. ]

Ah, see, there I can understand. Humes, ah humans, seem to have a penchant for turning anything they can into entertainment, war, and profiteering. It's always just a matter of time.