"Thanks! And yeah, she sure is! Even more if you have fruit--that's most of what she eats. Her name is Cottonball." Which surely suits her, considering she could be mistaken for a jumbo puff. Especially if you ignored the yellow ears and upside-down-heart shaped snout.

"Are you sure? You don't sound sure. About being okay out here, I mean." Sure, the fact that he could pick that up with empathy didn't hurt, either, but he wasn't trying to intrude on Daia at all.

"Or do you need backup? I'm supposed to keep moving, because I'm aerial recon, or I should be, but..."