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Whaat? That's so sad!

[ She's picking up on the rhythm of its movements quickly enough, bouncing in the saddle a bit. Honestly, she's not that surprised by Sephiroth's answer, though she does seem a bit put out. ]

Don't you name your mounts where you're from?

Yes, but that was never a responsibility of mine.

[In other words: he never had to really take care of a chocobo, never really ever had to ride one outside of basic training from years ago. That time he tumbled off of one as a child, a story he recounted to her before.

An idea sparks. He offers-]

You can name him if you want.

Can I?

[ She pulls the bird around in a circle the other way, mostly to see how well he responds to her touch. Easily enough, it seems. It really is easy to pick up for someone who's used to riding, in general. ]

Ooh, in that case...

Hmm.

He's very green, isn't he...?

[ Clearly, he needs to be called something green. What are some green things?? ]

Kale. Cucumber. Green bean. Chard.

...for some reason I got caught up on food.

Cucumber?

[Sephiroth actually laughs a little, low but reverberating so clearly in the empty space.]

Are you hungry, Ciri?

[His own mind skews towards food, now, since she's brought it up.]

If you want to name him after a vegetable, then you should name him Gyshal. Those are the greens he eats.

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[ Oops. Well... maybe. She goes a little pink, but she's laughing, shaking her head. ]

I don't know. I just thought of green foods first!

Oh, I do quite like the sound of that, though. Gyshal...

What kinds of greens are those? I've never heard of such a plant.

You pull them up by the root.

[The chocobo, while still following her directions around the lobby of Shinra's illustrious headquarters, seems to perk up everytime they say the name "Gysahl". Ciri isn't the only hungry one.]

They're like... [He seems to realize, belatedly, that it would be easier just to show her. A moment passes, willing the image into Horizon-reality, and a basket of gysahl greens appears hanging at the crook of his elbow.]

These.

[ At the sight of the basket, the chocobo lets out an excited wark! and immediately tries to go for it. A bad habit that Ciri would never encourage in her own horse (in the physical world, anyway), but that she indulges here with a laugh, loosening her grip a little on the reins and letting him bound over to poke his beak into the basket. ]

He does like those!

Can people eat them? They look like some kind of radish.

[But Sephiroth turns his body to keep the basket just out of reach, removing it from the prying beak of the chocobo-probably-to-be-named Gysahl.]

No. Wait.

[-he tells it, mildly disapproving. A military chocobo (it's in the Shinra building, after all) should show a little more restraint!

The bird trills in disappointment, but straightens and waits attentively. Sephiroth plucks a vegetable from the basket and hands it to Ciri, answering her question in the process.]

People can eat them if absolutely necessary. But chocobos prefer the taste more than humans do. Here, let him have one.

[ Sephiroth looks so taken aback by his misbehaving bird, Ciri giggles, knowing full well she is the one who should have held him back. But Gysahl (yes, that is his name now) is a good boy, and he follows instructions even if it is a bit impatiently. Keeping a tighter grip on his reins this time, Ciri reaches over to take the vegetable, making sure he doesn't turns his head and try to grab it before he's allowed.

After a few moments, she leans down and offers it in front of his beak. ]

Here you go, Gysahl. Who's a good boy?

[A well-trained chocobo, indeed, even if it does shuffle back and forth on his feet once or twice as he waits for permission to take the vegetable from Ciri’s hand. But once it’s been given, the bird gives yet one more pleased trill, and gently snaps up the root of the plant with its beak.

Down the hatch it goes!]

You should visit more often if you enjoy feeding him.

[Sephiroth comments, with vague amusement, before realizing he should latch on some kind of addendum to that — he would not wish to assume.]

If you feel like it. ...There’s not much else to do here but train.

[ ...if she enjoys feeding him, specifically?

Ciri catches Sephiroth's double-take and just laughs. She reaches down to take another vegetable for the chocobo, giving Sephiroth a knowing look. ]

All right. Maybe I will.

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pretend i spelled gysahl right the first time

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