[ Regis is quiet for a moment, then only repeats, softly, ] I am glad that you and Machina are here as well.

[ Since the two of them are more the exception rather than the rule.

After another moment, Regis sighs. ]

Thank you for checking, my dear. For now, I am holding up, and Auron's presence and Jecht's help. Let us be glad they had a chance for happiness, as long as it lasted, here. If we had spoken... we might have deprived them of it in exchange for worries, and they have plenty of those already.