[While she hasn't directly answered his question as such, the information she offers is quite interesting, and he makes a soft noise of assent as he nods his understanding.]

I've spoken to a few others from Eorzea and had started to suspect as much— though the number of parallels between the two is quite uncanny.

[Curiouser and curiouser.]

Indeed, it was similar for Fran— continues to be, in fact, even half a century after her departure.

[She had left the forest behind before he was even born, and yet her sister still scorned him as though he had stolen her— as though Fran ever did anything that wasn't of her own choosing.]

Anger played a part, as well. There are those who find the way of the Wood to be stifling.