"I'm just glad I could help." The Balladeer returns her smile, slightly crookedly. In truth, he feels he should have done more. He was so distracted by Johnny, he failed to notice the entire evil organization doing business right under his nose! Even now he doubts he knows the full extent of their operations, but it's clear that they've been causing trouble for other rifties for a while; it's only pure luck that they let him by unscathed.

Beth leans forward to bump her beak against Angus's nose. He's so big!

"I don't think they'll be able to reform after this, anyway," the Balladeer continues. "They won't even be able to keep the Rift secret." He doesn't really have to explain why; everyone in the city knows about all the bizarre occurrences of the past few days. With cameras so omnipresent in this era, there's no shortage of definitive proof. Whatever it means for all of them, the cat's out of the bag now.