"I've had them a long while," replies Theo. "And yes, they're very useful."

"In our conversations, and in what you showed me in that splendid device, winged people, guado, ronso, and hypello did not appear. Do you know why that would be?"

"Mainly because where I'm from doesn't have guado, ronso or hypello as far as I know? And as for the winged people, most people in our history were humans. There were probably some myths about winged people, though – I didn't show you much about those."

"Myths can be a fascinating window into a people's culture and purview."

"I really like some of the ones we have!" he agrees. "A lot of them are gruesome and vicious, some are weird, but a lot of them are interesting stories and I'm afraid I don't know a lot of them and I have left my phone with Kaede!"

"A pity. Still, I would remain interested to hear whatever you do remember, and would be more than happy to repay the favour."

"Sure," he smiles.

Turns out he knows quite a lot about Greek and Roman mythology. A bit of Egyptian, Persian and Native American mythology too.

Maechen, as before, drinks it all up, and could do this all evening (but they should probably do it while moving so they can reach the agency before full dark).

That is indeed the case!

Theo's plenty happy to just talk about the mythology he knows for now. He can probably get bits of other mythology from other people in the area.

And when they reach the agency it will be sunset. Which is, as usual, beautiful.

Kaede's sitting by the edge of the cliff, watching the sunset's reflection on the water.

...oh wait no, what he's actually doing is reading stuff on Theo's phone.

Good! That phone is extremely useful and Theo loves technology and this stupid place has a bunch of people religiously fearing it because of some stupid antagonistic boss monster or whatever.

Theo says that he should be nearby for the night but for now he supposes it will probably be farewell?

"Indeed, I myself should retire. These old bones no longer work as well as they used to."

"See ya," responds Theo, then off he goes to see Kaede.

"Having fun?"

He looks up and grins. "Yeah! You guys have invented so much cool stuff and there are so many people! I wonder if our planet's as big as yours."

"I haven't seen enough of it to comment," says Theo. "But yeah, there are lots of us."

He looks over his shoulder, determines they're private enough, and says, "You know, I'm pretty sure Yevon's chocobo poop."

"What part of him– or it, if you're talking the religion?"

"The religion, yeah," he sighs.

"They might well be right about what technology works… but yeah, it being a sin for you guys to use it? I'm gonna go for 'no' unless this place somehow has a localized god."

"I'm still not quite clear on what a god even—" Pause. Phone phone phone. "Oh. Hm. I don't think we have that."

"I mean, one of the things that gods are sometimes rumored to do is not intervene for various reasons – part of why lots of people dislike the whole idea, since there's no way to prove yay or nay – so you wouldn't necessarily know. But yeah."

"...if they don't do anything why do people think they exist, then?"

"Wow, good question there! That's the big issue. Some people are like 'well clearly they exist', others are like 'but I've seen no evidence' and the originals are like 'but I've felt it' or 'but who would write a book about all this' or 'heathen' or, you know, sometimes they have more valid reasoning than that, but yes, sort of approximately that."

"Wow. And here I thought Yevonites were insane. I mean, at least the stuff the guy said would work did work, and people do continue existing after they die so it's not impossible he could still be around but—yeah."