Nosy aren't you? Balthier is my stunningly charming and intelligent sky pirate boyfriend of you must know. Someone who embraces me for trying to know and understand him and seeks the same thing in return.

[Aka someone who had loved the thing Ikol had snapped at him for.]

Fair enough. I was in a room with our Stephen Strange once. I actually know all he knows about magic. Not that I can use it. But if this one is like that one, he's cunning. And an arrogant ass too.