He smiles in a way that tells her he knows what she means. Only his dad ever calls him 'Dale' anymore.

Well ... him and Windom, but Windom does so for entirely different reasons. Reasons Cooper doesn't particularly care for.

That was an interesting thing about coming to Johto. Without a title to attach to his family name a lot of people seemed to insist on using his first, which in all honesty had taken a little while to get used to.

No words for now, though - just a moment of companionable silence.