"I was the best player back in Zanarkand," he says, rubbing his nose self-satisfiedly.

"Ah," says Theo. "Congrats."

"Thanks! I could show you how to blitz sometime." Pause. "The wings might be a problem."

"I can get rid of them," he says. "Perks of being able to change things. But yeah, sounds fun."

"Oh, right, cool. D'you have wing sports where you're from?"

"Yeah, actually!" he says, and if Tidus seems interested he explains the basics of one of them – like an aerial game of catch, basically.

Tidus finds it pretty cool actually. Shame he doesn't have wings.

Unfortunately wings would not do too well in combination with a mortal body, so even though Theo could in theory create them attached to the body… it wouldn't work. Oh well.

At least he can breathe underwater.

It's not like Theo would be that badly harmed by trying to do things underwater, and he could always convert the water into air or something, but– any chance he can learn to breathe underwater anyway? Sounds neat.

Yeah actually! It's pretty intuitive, but takes a while. He needs to go into a tank infused with magic and breathe that water, and then do that in decreasingly magical water until he learns to do it to regular water.

… He's not totally certain he wants to go into a tank of magical water. It's not like it'll kill him but it might be slightly annoying if he can't change it and he needs to.

Maybe.

Oh it's not magical water, it's water with magic. The water itself's just water.

Well. That might act just like water, then, yeah. He might do that sometime then.

"We're going to Luca after this, they must have the equipment for that ready."

"How long does it usually take to do? Like, a few days of training or like an hour of trying it, or…?"

"Uh, usually some months."

Nod. "I'm guessing it takes longer if you stop and start, but do you have any idea how much longer? 'Cause I probably won't be spending months learning how to breathe underwater, at least not all in a row."

"I don't really know, I'd always wanted to be a Blitzball so I kinda did it all the time."

"– Be a Blitzball?"

"What?"

"You've always wanted to be a Blitzball– player?"

"Yeah, that's what I said."

Pause. "Okay. Any other sports around here, or is that the major one?"

"In Spira it's kinda the only one."