And there he was. He'd been told, and given the varying time points the others came from it shouldn't come as too much of a shock. But there, standing before him, was Regis Lucis Caelum as he'd appeared at twenty years old. It took the older man's breath away to see his friend in such a state again.

No surprise, he couldn't help the soft smile that spread on his face. "Were you warned ahead of time, I assume?" he asked. Of course maybe it was possible that Regis just recognized him, but why would he assume this aging, balding old man was his Clarus when presumably the Clarus he'd seen maybe as soon as minutes before awakening here was a young, robust gentleman?