[He greets you also with a smile because its the polite and proper thing to do since you were so nice with your greeting, bad news and all.]

Hello Rapunzel, a pleasure to meet you. You may call me Citan Uzuki.

Thank you for your offer of aid in the matter of my companions. I appreciate it.

The moogle said as much it would seem; I just was not certain as to just what it meant by 'Darkness' when the creature mentioned it. It is rather good to know there is efforts underway to see about reversing the situation.