Definitely purring. David melts onto him, head pushing hard against his hand. If Balthier had ever in his childhood wanted a couerl for a pet, the urge is gone. Better to have a pet you can pick up and move, rather than one that can knock you over when it's pleased with you.

"Flattered and humbled, dear one," he says. "David, what if we got on my bike and I took you somewhere with...lots of birds."

He'll have to go slow. And stay low to the ground. Gods if he had his magick from home he could stun him, not that he really wants to stun his clearly cursed boyfriend.

He also has a teleport coin and could take them back to the Guilds, but with how busy everything is, he thinks right now they have a better chance on their own.