[Is she... colouring? A little bit, actually. Feelings never really go away and maybe that's part of why Rinoa has, in turn, kind of avoided him back home. She's never known what to say and she knows herself. She knows how transparent she can be. She knows of her very bad habit of saying things and not being able to properly filter out what's right and what's wrong. So maybe she's been afraid of saying something she'd regret.

Maybe it's even deeper than that.

Every time she looks at him, she just thinks about what she said back in Galbadia Garden. And her heart threatens to catch right in her throat. She has no right to even think about it, much less to feel it. not even back then, she imagines.]

I can think of fewer things that could compare to spending time with you. It's been long overdue. I've got a lot to make up for, don't I.

[She chuckles.] Good thing I'm just annoying enough to make that happen.