Is it?

[The words escape her mouth before she can think better of them in her shock, just because he'd (foolishly) forgiven her, spared her life, didn't mean that she expected him to be happy to see her again.

The doglike creature whined softly and set to leaning against her leg, the pressure a welcome grounding presence.]

Sorry, I...it's...been a long time. I didn't expect...

[She shakes her head.]

No. I haven't. I was in the Crystarium, then...

[She shrugs, spreading her hands helplessly. After so long on the First and with the Ascians mostly out of the picture, she truly expected her world-hopping days to be over. Waking up under a tree with an odd white animal laying next to her was not in the plan--simple as her life is now.]