I'm really glad to see you. [Hope buries his face into the chocobo's feathers, sighing contentedly.] It's funny, huh... now you're a lot bigger than me.

[And a lot more matronly, apparently? Maybe all grown-up chocobos have that motherly instinct, or something.]

I'm okay. I just... I thought I lost you all that time ago. Did you find someone else's hair to live in? [A soft, sleepy boyish giggle.]