[The clerks nod and say their goodbyes and David wonders if the pair even realize they never got a name from Balthier or his companion. As it was, they got away and he had to chuckle when they dropped the act.]

Gotta say, I'm not used to having that much fun. But geez you pull of 'pompous ass' so fucking well. Channeling all those people you grew up around? That disdain for citrines? Beautiful.

And one of the women in charge back home, on my island, she's a shapeshift. Mystique is one of the queens of disguise and deception. I was just doing my best to make her proud, even if she would laugh to think of someone like emulating her. For the Jewelry, well, I had a teacher who was super high class family who went off to make her own life, joined one of those secret societies that tries to control things, actually took more or less control of it, and did I mention she could turn into living diamond? Emma had opinions about jewelry and how to treat people in jewelry stores, and she's one of the people I have a LOT from.