A friend? [That eyebrow hikes even higher, running parallel with his level of amusement.

Ardyn's a relatively quick-thinking man in general, but this doesn't exactly take immense powers of deduction to figure out who Rocket is referring to. There's only one person from Eos who has been awoken from his pod as long as he; only one whose so-called friends would frown upon him for the things done back home, on that now destroyed faraway star.

And Ardyn? He just laughs.]

Oh, you mean Prompto. What a sociable sort he is; but I see he hasn't been painting me in the most flattering light? What a shame.