...Haha. [He can't help but chuckle, but it's clearly coming from a place of fondness.] When you put it that way, I suppose I have.

[He glances toward the portals. An autumn scene of the Crestlands makes one of them undeniably the path to Solistia.]

I'm glad that time doesn't seem to have passed, either. I feared I was missing out on the remainder of their journeys.

[He had written as much on a postcard, all those weeks ago.]