"It'd be useful to have another datapoint on how to get one. Would be nice to be able to do it reproducibly in the future."

Nod.

"Other than that, though, yeah, we've just been complaining. It'd be useful to be able to summon daeva."

"Well, aren't you gonna try more circles again?"

"I can't personally fill them in, I'd need one of you to fill it in and it doesn't matter much – probably – if we do it now or in ten minutes."

"Sin is probably not attacking anyone right now, no, but still, is there a reason to wait ten minutes?"

"Nope, just you looked like you were having a peaceful time." He gets up. "We can do it now if you want?"

"Do let's."

And then there are a few almost-finished circles on the ground!

He will finish them!

… None of the circles produce any daeva, after ten seconds or after a minute.

"Oh well," sighs Theo.

"This is just weird."

"Frustrating, too. It usually works pretty infallibly where I'm from – can't think of any examples of it not working, it'd only be if the circles were wrong or nobody were taking summons, which wouldn't happen – so I can't think of any non-weird-magical-interaction explanations."

"Maybe something affected the circle in Kilika?"

"I don't recall seeing anything intersect the circle or whatever, but I wasn't paying much attention to it, and I'm not sure how you'd need to modify the standard circle to be able to access daeva from another plane or something if applicable, and I've never heard of other things in the environment affecting this sort of thing, and I'm not even sure that creating a circle through the aeon thing counts as validly producing a circle and you as being validly my summoner but it appears to be the case since I got a summons to that particular place at that particular moment."

"You appeared practically on top of me."

"And you seemed to materialize the circle through some form of magic which I guess doesn't exclude it from being a valid circle but– I'm not sure if you do the circle with magic to get the aeon or if it's a byproduct of summoning them or…?"

"It's sort of a byproduct? Part of the ritual, to indicate that I want to summon that aeon and not some other."

"Is it definitely produced by you, though, or is it part of the bond? Because if it's the bond then it's possible the fayth is my summoner, maybe?"

"I'm not sure the distinction is that clear but—you speak Al Bhed? Pretty sure Valefor never did."

Nod. "It's probably you, then. Which still leaves the question of why the circles would normally not work but work that one time, and– well, it's probably more likely that something screwed with the circle to make it cross-dimensional or something, seeing as this is not very much like the mortal world I know, than that it just so happens the circle only works with a particular astronomical configuration or emotional state or something."

"Yeah.—wait, are you sure this is a different dimension and not just a different planet?"

"I'm not sure, no, but it seems to have a weird magic that is at least not found on the other planet? And you're all suspiciously humanlike, and there's the aforementioned similarities to our video games, so I'm– sort of lost here, really?"

"Eh. No way to tell, really, I don't think," he shrugs.

"Not with our current lack of transport, no." Theo clears the circles away, seeing as how they are non-functioning.