Balthazar gives Horvath a slightly sad smile, and an encouraging nod. However uncomfortable this is for him, however surreal it must seem to Dave, for Horvath it must be twice as bad.

Dave's coughing fit interrupts the somber mood at just the right moment, though, and Balthzar's expression reverts to bemusement. He gets up and retrieves a couple napkins left over from a takeout supper, offering them calmly to the Prime Merlinian.

The question gives him pause again, and he glances at Horvath. Slowly, he says, "Temptation comes in many forms. And sometimes people fall in ways you might not expect."

It's deliberately vague.