Really, Balthier is lucky to learn today that it's okay to let some of it out. Because a carefully controlled trickle is far better than the whole damn failing later. And this might seem like a dam failure, but... Well, it's not. At all.

"I love you too," David says, his voice soft and full of suck emotion.

Love, so freely given and openly accepted. It that almost made David cry all on its own. To be so loved is intense for him too.