[Gods, something about her tone is so familiar. No matter how long it's been, his mind flashes back to Serah scolding Hope from the future, and changing the past in the process. For a second, he's not sure how to respond, wrapped up in the past and his own thoughts.]

Better save some of that for the rest of us, when that time comes. [In spite of his introspection, he manages a bit of a smile.] I have a feeling you're not the only one with a few things they'd like to say to the people in charge.

[Not that he knows what he'd say, yet, being so new.]

My name's Noel, by the way. Noel Kreiss. What about you?