"Yeah, like I said, it's just the bond between them that does the magic. My Ifrit looks like all other Ifrits, but they're not the same. And there isn't a census on summoners who go on pilgrimages, people are discouraged from giving quitters a hard time because it's hard enough to draw volunteers as is. But many priests of Yevon, and all Maesters, are summoners, too, even if they're not on pilgrimages."

"Do they tell you about how to start summoning and things in school? … I'm not sure what kind of education system you have here."

"School here is, er, something you go to to get good at a job?"

"School as I'm used to it is general education up until the age of approximately eighteen – I assume we have the same length years but I haven't actually checked – and then often followed by about four years of university where you have more specialized education in a field? There are apprenticeships, though, which are more specifically tailored towards specific jobs."

"That one sounds more like what we have. We call the thing to become a summoner an 'apprenticeship,' the other things schools."

"There are things like 'school of engineering' – that's a type of science – but usually they're buildings or divisions that make up part of a college or university." Shrug. "Do you have any form of generalized education, even as kids? Or is it all, like, parents-to-children-and-exposure stuff?"

"Parents-to-children, sometimes a village elder teaches all the children at the same time."

"Well, hopefully you can, after Sin is gone, import some of the concepts for education and such."

"Oh trust me I am gonna copy so much stuff from your world."

"I'm glad!" he says. "I feel like I've been dropped somewhere I can help potentially large-scale, which is nice."

"Potentially large-scale helping is very satisfying!"

"It is!" Smile. "Found anything in particular you like the look of on the phone, or just– sort of everything?"

"Sort of everything? These computers and other things like your phone thing sound pretty amazing, though."

"Unfortunately I don't know much about technology personally and I only have limited ability to reproduce it myself, but I should have some books about it on there."

"There's not a whole lot of point right now—the internet sounds like the kind of thing Sin would definitely want to destroy."

"Yeah, agreed, but long-term– I guess we should probably check out the summoning circles again, actually, since I seem to be operating as though they'll never work again."

"Sure."

He stands up, twirls around his feet and opens his arms—

—magic circle, show of lights, bird thing.

And Theo replicates most of the circle in two separate pieces on the ground.

"– We probably shouldn't use this one, though, last time it got me unbound."

Kaede dismisses Valefor.

"Erm. Do you know how to make this bind? And why didn't anyone appear all the other times I summoned Valefor, anyway?"

"I have no idea – really I'd probably have expected them to, since it's there long enough for someone to take it, but then the other circles didn't work when I tried them with Tidus so I'm not sure." Shrug. "As for binding… I don't recognize this design for a circle, but I should be able to write one around the edge?"

"Well, it probably won't work but you can try anyway."

He shrugs, combines the halves, adds some text, and then says, "And now it should work if you fill it in? Except it probably won't, because I seem to be some weird fluke."

He fills it in!

And after ten seconds, nothing has appeared.

"So it seems like this circle is also a no."