"I think he was afraid I'd say the wrong thing or something like that." Balthier shrugs slightly and hopes that's convincing enough. He doesn't want to show what the armband can do, but it's acceptable if needed. It's a lot more horrifying to picture some lab wanting to duplicate the effects. So, he's not exactly inclined to lose it.
"When I was ten, to - simplify a long story, I thought I saw my father in the mirror with a strange group of people." Balthier can hear how ridiculous this sounds. "He and I look very similar. The guy who wasn't my father was a sky pirate, who stole a ship called the Strahl, and fled his father when he was seventeen, because the man had gone mad and started talking to thin air and calling it Venat."