[ Balthier doesn't get many youth in here, but he tends to enjoy the ones he does. They're either little punks he can fluster into leaving, or they genuinely have some eye for good antiques or a sense of stability from the past.

This one definitely seems like the second. ]

A topic works. You can ask for clarity or guidance. Here. It needs some of your energy.

[ He hands the deck over. Balthier has real magic. Tarot is not, not in any energy transference sense. It's very much magic in the way art and theater are, giving perspective to things we can't reach ourselves.

And he's a conman and it's fun to pretend he's magic this way. ]

I'm Balthier. I don't think we've met.