Fair. Do you remember how enthusiastic the people here used to be about us? I'd get greeted in the street, when I first moved here. That's part of why I picked Excelsior in the first place.

[It was good for his career, of course, but also...Balthier's right, Otto can't conceal anything. He hadn't cared so much about admiration; he'd just enjoyed not feeling like he was scaring the populace just by going outside.]

Ah, look at that!

[Otto reaches out an actuator. Though he feels like he's moving normally, it's still faster than usual; given the vast gulf between their reaction times, he just snatches the drone, brings it down, and shuts it off manually.]

There we go. You know, I've felt bad that magic users were getting the brunt of it. I think we may be seeing the end of that.