[Or perhaps it's just the effect Faith has on people. Either way, she'd be glad to know she's liked.]

It's nice to meet you, Shadow the Hedgehog! [She thinks it's a perfectly good name.

Also a perfectly cute one.]

You've been here a while, then? [Longer than Kate? Not as long? Just as long?] Then you know better than me that this isn't going to last very long.

[Phi, sensing the twinge of sadness that goes through Faith at voicing the thought, takes flight and alights on her head again, illuminating her and Shadow and the little Chao in the glow of its gently flaming feathers.]

Such a shame.