He will heat up the area around it, then!

"Yo! Do the melty earth thing!"

Sure. He'll do the melty earth thing too. Then he can make the melty earth climb up its body to try to encase it more thoroughly, woo, fun.

It's not very quick.

"I really like using you to cheat," she says, grinning, and starts summoning Ifrit from the bowels of the earth.

(The fiend starts shaking and the earth around it starts cracking as it does. It is pretty strong.)

He grins back at her.

(It's okay, Theo can change the ground to fix it up, or– why is he using ground? He can try something stronger, metals are nice, let's try a metal.)

And now there is a huge fire dog hurling fireballs at the immobile fiend.

It does not take long to dissolve into pyreflies.

Woo!

Any spheres? He can clean up the metal and make the landscape slightly less cratered.

Yep! A couple, inside the crater.

A blond man with very clear green eyes and spiral irises walks out of the agency. "Thank you for your help. Have you any interest in renting some chocobos? As a token of our gratitude, the first time is free of charge."

Theo turns to Kaede: "Okay– I have no idea what you would use a chocobo for? Riding? Is it riding."

"It is indeed riding. Some people eat chocobo meat, but the chocobos raised here are all bred for riding."

"We might just take you up on your offer, Mister...?"

"My apologies. I am Rin, owner of this establishment and responsible for the chocobo rentals along the Mi'ihen Highroad."

"– Are they faster than people, then? Used for faster transportation, or just for entertainment…?"

"Some chocobos can reach eighty kilometres per hour."

"Okay, so, faster transportation then. How long can you rent them for, do you have other– pens or something we can deposit them in?"

"You rent them for as long as you need them for, so long as you do not leave the Highroad with them. You can find corrals here and at either end of the Highroad."

To Kaede: "I probably don't need a chocobo myself."

Wings are so convenient.

"You probably don't," she agrees.

"We will rent six chocobos."

"Very well."

He nods at the attendant, who makes her way to the chocobo corral to fetch them.

"– So you know other-Zanarkand?" asks Theo, seemingly out of nowhere. "I'm not clear on how much you've actually tried looking for it?"

"...not very much? It's apparently an island but it's not close enough our short-distance boats can make it. The only person we know reached it from here was Mr. Legendary Guardian, and you've seen how forthcoming he is with information."

"Do you know which direction it's in? Like, which shore Tidus-or-Guardian showed up on."

"Sir Jecht appeared near Bevelle, north of here, but Tidus appeared at the very south, in Besaid."

"Actually I showed up in some temple somewhere, first, then I ended up in Besaid again."