"Yeah," Lea said. "It's kinda a catch phrase. Though it doesn't catch as much here as it did back home."

As for the actual point of the conversation. "Eh, it's fine," he said with regards to both of their desires to put off hugs for now. "I prefer hugging my friends to people I just met too, so it can wait. And honestly I was mostly messing with you guys a bit anyway, since I definitely seem to have stumbled into the middle of something. Not that I wouldn't have gone along with it if one of you had wanted a hug for real, mind you. But I'm kinda curious as to how this got started now."