Setting down their bag which he'd been carrying, Raoh turned to face his two old friends. In both of them, he could see the children he'd once known. Souga's lanky body had become more wiry when he developed a little muscle, but still tall and slim in that way. Reina, she still had those large blue eyes, her strawberry blond hair having grown out a good deal since the last time he'd seen her. Even Raoh, who's heart had began to harden with the years, could not hold back the smallest smile which touched the corners of his eyes. "You came ... I'm glad." The look faded a moment after though, becoming serious in a way he hadn't possessed as a child. They would find, many more things had changed, rather than stayed the same, about Raoh. "Souga, Reina, thank you." His eyes looked between the two siblings, but stopped on the second, on Reina. Just by looking at her, he could tell she had done what she had said she would. The way she held herself, even unconsciously, was that of someone who had confidence. He wondered what kind of life she had lived while he was gone, how it had been for her during and after the war. He could, at least, see the two had taken care of one another.
"That you would stay true to your word and come and join me, even fourteen years later, I won't forget your loyalty." In his letter, he had said precious little about what exactly it was he was asking they come to see him again for. Only that, in this dark time, he needed people he could trust. That when he thought of those he could, their names were the first that came to his mind, and for that reason, he wanted to see them again. Could of it been he just wrote it out of some nostalgic desire, then? Out of loneliness in this broken world? Given the way he'd phrased his request, it was entirely possibly. Yet, something about his demeanor now should of suggested to to them if they'd thought it was either one of those things, that was an unlikely guess now. He looked, and sounded, to be a man who would have no problem surviving in today's world. Add to that, the way he spoke of his appreciation for their reply ran much deeper than simply a duty of friendship fulfilled.