"Huh," he says. "That's– do you have any idea what the population is, of Spira?"

"I guess a few hundred thousand? Maybe a few million people?"

Nod. "We've got about ten billion, on Earth, and definitely a lot more sports than 'like one'."

"There's probably other small ones, but Wakka told me Sin destroys everything before it gets big, so no other sports get a chance to."

"– Uh. Then why hasn't it done that with Blitzball yet?"

He shrugs. "I dunno."

"Right," he says. "– If they're gonna be there for a few hours, I should probably look around for something to do, like – any idea where a hospital is, something like that?"

"They shouldn't take more than another like hour. Why do you want a hospital?"

"Not for me, it'd be so I can hopefully treat some things – I'm trained in medical stuff so I should be able to help out, unless you're all way higher-tech than it seems."

"Oh. I dunno if there's hospitals, though, and—if there were any Sin probably destroyed them yesterday."

"Right," he says. "And nowhere that the sick might congregate to see a doctor or something…? I mean, I guess you don't know since you're new too, but," he shrugs. "Anything you need fixed up, by the way? Since I'm available with medical knowledge and the ability to change things."

"Nah, I'm fine. And I think people use magic to heal, here."

"That might interact weirdly if I try healing them, then – don't know if healing magic would actually just speed up regrowth or if the result is magical too."

"It's probably not, magic stuff disappears after a while."

Nod. "You got anything to do while we wait for them? I was thinking of flying around a bit."

"Not really. Practice with my new sword, I guess."

"– Do you want to try summoning something, then? With the aforementioned risks to where you'll go when you die, and the fact that if we want something useful we probably want to go filtering through a bunch of Changers or get a Maker who is hopefully favorably inclined."

"Hey, it's better than going nowhere, which is where I thought I'd go before. Uh, we should probably go outside for that, these old geezers will be annoyed if we deface their temple."

"Probably," he agrees. Outside they go, in that case.

Theo could carry Tidus down? It'll probably be faster than walking down the ridiculous number of steps.

Tidus thinks there's no reason to go down, they can just do it in the woods over here.

Sure.

Theo picks up a twig and starts drawing a summoning circle. "Don't say anything when they appear – if you make a sound of agreement it might count as such, so it's best if you're just quiet while I do the negotiation."

"Okay."

And then most of the circle is done! He pauses. "Okay, well, we should maybe actually have something for them to do when they're here, hm. Could ask them to go fix up that place, but it's not like I actually have anything to trade with them." Hm. "You got anything on you that you're willing to trade for them? Otherwise I can see if they want a copy of whatever I have on my phone."

He shrugs. "There's probably lots of magic stuff here that you guys don't have where you're from. Could just give them a power sphere."

"– I have no idea what that is, and do you have one on you?"