"What about the afterlives -"

"Checking those next."

Bounce bounce.

"You're really cute."

"I'm a hundred twenty five Earth years."

"...congratulations?"

"...so I'm not a cute little kid I'm big?"

"...uh, sorry if you don't like having it commented on, if I'd realized it might've been an issue I'd've checked."

He folds his wings. "It's okay all the Bells say it."

"Why don't you like it?"

"I want people to take me seriously?"

"...does thinking you're cute preclude that?"

"I think so? People think I'm cute because I'm a kid which is also why they don't take me seriously?"

"...I mostly think you're cute because you're short and excitable and look like a child rather than because I was inferring things about how long you've been around, but you should be advised that being very concerned about exactly how old people think you are is also childlike behavior."

"...that's sorta unfair."

"Is it?"

"Yeah, obviously. It doesn't have anything to do with how seriously you should take people."

"Whether parsing somebody as a child should make you take them less seriously is a separate question from whether caring a lot if your exact age is accounted for should cause you to parse as a child."

"I guess, but if the reason children care about their age is that people don't take them seriously and then this gets counted against them it feels like double-counting."

"Yeah, fair enough."

"And you can start teaching Materia magic - it's really useful - I think there're people working out rollout procedures for magic in places where there're sources other than Maiar -"

Ferardrin?

The Plane of Chaos has lots of things happen but none of them are predictable from any things that have previously happened and there is no reason to expect that answering the voice in his head would have any effect because nothing has any effect because effect does not exist at all. 

She can tell the difference between "not there" and "not replying". Ferardrin, my name's Bella and I'm a friend of your family's -

That is an unusually long complete sentence.