Any other time, those comments would have come easily, and perhaps in the future they would, after all, his friend couldn't handle a big hug from his best friend in the world?

Comedy gold mine right there, but he wasn't able to handle it just at the moment.

"Yeah."

Again, one word, barely anything and just a mess was a good way to describe him. He didn't know what to do to fix that or how to make himself more articulate. He was never very good with stress.

"I...you..."

He was trying, the words just weren't coming and partly he looked like a fish out of water, mouth opening and closing before him.

"Noct d-do you-" He swallowed and curled in on himself more. He needed to spit it out, it wasn't going to make any sense.

"Know the future?"

Finally.