[ He will find the chocobo behaves exactly as he might expect. She perks up curiously with a soft noise, friendly and eager to be petted.

Ciri also can't resist moving closer to stroke her feathers. ]

The sweetest, softest Big Bird I ever saw, aren't you? [ This is meant for the chocobo, not Sephiroth.

To him, she looks back up and says: ]

How many variants are there?

I wonder if it's just something similar that lives here, and we've simply never seen them before... it's a big continent. Some sort of exotic shipment lost in the desert?

I asked around at the university, but I couldn't find any records of birds like this.

[ The other option, left unsaid, presents... more uncertainty. ]