This earns a bright, easy laugh from Balthazar. While the boy didn't participate in the drinking competition (there's nothing fun about drinking until you vomit on someone's shoes, he's decided) and he's fairly good at holding his liquor, he's obviously drunk. His cheeks are flushed and he's wavering on his feet and he seems to have lost any sense of volume control. He tries to slip his arm through Hero's. "If he perishes in the woods, Reynard gets his bunk!" he says cheerfully. Who cares about Nick anyway?