He nodded with a small frown, "That's terrible that people treated them so. I hope things are better for them now. In my world we have hanjyuu, they are people who can be animals as well as people, they shift in between, like a kirin but they turn into a rat or a cat or a wolf. They aren't treated well in some of the kingdoms and are sometimes not even considered citizens. It's a terrible thing."

So he is glad that things seemed to be better for the Al Bhed now in Spira. "What was your friend called?"