[Cliff also liked the idea of it. He missed the loud, boisterous camaraderie of his fellow Klausians on the Diplo, or even the misadventures in the inns during his travels through Aquaria and Aeriglyph.

Cliff tilted his head and raised an eyebrow, as if in askance at Souji.]

Together? No way! She's one tough lady back home. An intelligence operative, if you will.

[He paused. Perhaps that was too modern a term to understand.]

Uh...wait. You'd probably call her a Ninja.