<div class="floatleft">(https://wiki.rpg.net/images/3/32/GoodDrBalthazar.jpg)</div><strong>Character:</strong>Dr. Nicholas Balthazar<br/><strong>Who:</strong>Maple<br/><strong>Where:</strong>908 East Tower (Min-joon's room)<br/><strong>When:</strong>4th Arrangement<br/><strong>Wearing:</strong>As pictured<br/><hr/>Maple loses herself in trance, and brings the few words that Min-joon shouted at her to the surface of her mind. She can remember them well enough to try to pronounce them, hopefully well enough for a Korean speaker to understand.<br/><br/>When she surfaces, Dr. Balthazar has set most of the furniture back in place, with the obviously broken pieces off to one side. Min-joon is still on the bed, breathing slowly. No one home.<br/><br/>"I'm going to call an ambulance, Maple," Dr. Balthazar says gently. "You may not want to be here when the paramedics arrive. There'll be a lot of fuss.<br/><br/>"Maple…I can't absolve you of guilt, but I think you were no more culpable than the rest of us, Maddy and Charlene and I. I know Charlene—Reverend Foley—is in the chapel. I wish I could join her there, but I have to take care of the practicalities. I don't know whether you would find it comforting to pray, or just an opportunity to brood, but if you think it would help you, please take the time you need. I'll excuse you from classes for the rest of the day. Or if classes would distract you usefully, that's fine too.<br/><br/>"Anything you need, please let me know. This is a terrible time for all of us."<br/><br/>Having just emerged from trance, with her mind open, Maple can't help but notice once again that Dr. Balthazar stands out from his surroundings in somewhat the same way that Maple and her Assembly-mates do, though not to the same degree. It doesn't seem to be a property of magical training; Rev. Foley does not partake of the same quality at all. Only the nine students (counting Maple), and to a much lesser extent Dr. Balthazar, appear that way to Maple's artistic eye.