"I'm Theo."

"I have never seen anyone quite like you."

"Most people around here don't have wings," agrees Theo.

"I take it you're not, then? From around here?"

"i'm not," he agrees. "I got summoned accidentally somehow and it doesn't seem reproducible. Very weird."

"Summoned? But you're not an aeon." It's not a question.

"I'm not! But my species – sorta species – is able to be summoned by people with appropriate equipment and such, and it turns out that somehow occurred here, when it usually doesn't."

"I see. And what brings you to the Calm Lands?"

"I was trying to find my way back to – Luca kind of area? I got a bit lost."

"You got quite lost, Luca is across the continent from here."

"I thought it might be."

"If you go straight south, through Macalania Woods, across the Thunder Plains, cross the Moonflow, down the Mushroom Rock Road, and the Mi'ihen Highroad, you'll get there."

"Thank you," he says, writing the instructions on his arm.

"You're quite welcome. What do you wish to find in Luca?"

"I left some friends at Mushroom Rock. When I got lost. A few days ago."

"A few days ago?" He eyes Theo's wings with new appreciation. "Truly Yevon's blessings are astounding."

"I had a lift, didn't fly the way myself," says Theo.

"A 'lift'?"

"Something faster than me carried me over."

"What could it be?" he wonders.

"Probably best not to tell. It's dangerous."

"I see. Well, safe travels, my friend."

The two Crusaders got more and more relaxed throughout the conversation, and they salute Theo.

Theo waves and flies in the direction mentioned.

And south, he can find what's probably the Macalania Woods: a gorgeous frozen forest with glittering magical lights.

Pretty.

Are there fiends in the forest?