Balfour keeps to no faction and works The Yard as a Bulldog who is stubborn in public and soft hearted in private, a proper comic boulder. Anyone within earshot of Balfour eventually hears the theory that all the lost relics live in one specific drawer somewhere underwater. Even the glassbirds quiet for a moment when Balfour walks under the leaning tree. Balfour suspects the old world left at least one good question lying around with that exact name written on it.