"Thank you. It's - you'd build things like this out of premade parts sometimes, so I do feel a bit like I'm doing school crafts, but -" Balthier lightly resets it. "You'd build models too for large builds, just to get a feel for how - this might be on a big double door, for example."
He looks at Iomhar, and then grins. "I fear he'll have to be disappointed. I'm not the legal sort."
He looks down at his hands. "It . . . I'm not sure what you did hear. To - put it simply, I . . . I went there, because I thought Basch was in the prison. I just missed him on the way out, but I didn't know it then. And . . . my father confronted me there and arrested me." He looks at Isannah. "I think he wanted me to acknowledge that I was defying his will, but - I was never one for holding my tongue well, which - didn't help. My siblings wanted to know what happened to me."