"I heard about that! I should read up more on chocobos... maybe we'll meet a gold someday. Oi, we got any golds in here?" He paused to flag down one of the lalafell sponsors. She shook her head, but it was more in dismay that they didn't have such rare and valuable birds.

Kanji sighed and approached Bird o' War. Slowly, he reached up for that bird face. Bird o' War canted his head at him, then slowly lowered to meet those hands.

The sound that came from Kanji was... joy? Joy. Totally a little squeal.

"Y-you're so soft... do they take good care of you here, buddy? Fat n' happy?"