"I know, I just mean… He might not get to you for you to be able to tell him."

He looks pensive for a moment, then says, "If it looks like I'm not gonna be able to... Tell him I'm sorry. And I'm proud of him." A soft chuckle escapes his lips. "And that he'd better stop all his crying."

Theo smiles a bit.

Then he looks at his blade, and then he tries to decapitate Jecht.

Jecht's hand is now holding the blade. He was fast enough Theo entirely missed the movement, if he had indeed moved and not merely teleported his arm to the appropriate position. He starts laughing. "Good try, kid. Not good enough."

The blade is quite sharp. Is it digging in at all?

"Any pointers for next time?" he asks, seemingly unfazed.

He managed to grab hold of the blade without its edge actually touching his skin.

"Be stronger, faster, more prepared, maybe with an aeon or two. And be happy Sin is tired. I coulda killed you with a sneeze."

Theo raises an eyebrow. "I'll try."

Can he pull his blade back? Or is he just gonna have to detach it, he's not too opposed to that.

Jecht lets go easily. "And if you'd killed me, what then? You coulda become Sin, and no one would tell my son, and then they'd have to come kill you instead."

"… I am really not sure I'd be able to become Sin, and if that did in fact happen then it'd be pretty terrible? But yeah, I was more hoping that killing you without the Final Aeon would just end it."

"Well. Come back later, when you can keep up, if you wanna take the risk."

"Mm," he responds, then flies away.

Jecht disappears before Theo's too far.

Weird.

Theo continues towards the platform he first came to in this city.

It's just where he left it.

Before he goes down the steps, he flies up into the air again.

Anything interesting or noteworthy around? Something that looks like it might be useful to go look at, not Tidus's dad?

Not before he reaches the carpet of clouds.

He'll try going through the carpet of clouds this time, instead of down the steps. See if it's a localized illusion or if he's being transported somewhere else when he goes up and down them.

The space above the clouds looks much the same everywhere.

The sphere of light marking the place he came from is nowhere visible, though.

He'll go back down, then, and down the stairs, and look for a balloon.

There's one!

Over to the balloon he'll go.

And then there's the next balloon, and the next, and eventually there are no more balloons.

Weird distance effect.

He flies upwards and tries to find the shiny not-ball in the air.

It is there.

It's probably worth it for him to relay this information to them, give them more of an idea of the stuff behind this all.

He can always try breaking in some other time.

So he goes through the shiny not-ball.