"I don't think there's any kind of sympathetic magic like that developed. Or, well, I don't know it. Other than summoning. I'm not sure how it'd work, though, the bond between fayth and summoner is pretty strong. It doesn't sound like it should be impossible to do it with a living person but it'd be different."

"… Unsent aren't particularly common, I don't think, and it'd be hard to ensure you had similar goals and such, but that might be an avenue to look into?"

"Mm, maybe. You know, it may be cliché'd, but I bet love would do it."

"– Would it require a shared target, d'you think? 'Cause if so that'd probably be awkward to arrange."

"No, I don't think so. It's more about sharing the same emotion, with the fayth, and it just happens that the emotion summoners have in common with all fayth is a deep-seated desire to kill Sin."

"Do you get to pick between different fayth, do trial runs to work out which ones you share the most emotions with and get the best power out of? Because there could be different, mm, 'flavors' of detest of Sin? Might have differing results with different pairings."

"Every summoner going on a pilgrimage gets aeons from every fayth, so I don't think it's that fine grained. It's also not detesting Sin, exactly, it's more, wanting to save Spira and give people safety and stuff. Via killing Sin."

"Ah, you get them from each fayth. Do you get multiple from each, do the individual fayth statues stay in different locations?"

"There's a different fayth in each temple—the one in Kilika was my second one, Ifrit, you saw—and each fayth has exactly one aeon to offer. The aeon is—sort of an avatar of the fayth and their emotions."

"And they can make multiple copies of them at a time, one per summoner? – How many summoners are there, and how many people actually try to go all the way to killing Sin, I'm not sure what the numbers or the failure rates look like here."

"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."