The thing is, I... back then, I hadn't ever even talked to Noct. Didn't have the courage to even imagine someone like me could just buddy up with someone like him. I was... I was different, back then.

[Awkward and stand-offish and different. Always different. Never like the others, always apart.]

But when you wrote me that letter, I--I decided I would be his friend, no matter what it took. So I started to change myself, and open up, and... and I have to thank you, Lady Lunafreya.

[It's a smaller, gentler, more genuine smile he offers her, this amazing woman who'd once been a girl worried for her dog.]

Because of you, I have one of--no. I have three of the best friends on the planet.