"And thank you."

"… So I got through the forcefield, it wasn't indestructible, and managed to dig through Sin's hide. Was trying to just damage it, ended up in some weird world-thing, on the inside."

"...weird world-thing?"

"It looked huge, it did not appear to have walls, the place I broke through Sin's hide or whatever seemed to be a hovering shiny ball, and this whole place was… huge and cloudy and pyreflies were everywhere."

"...I think I went there."

"Rrreally?"

"I mean I thought it was a dream but... when I got abducted by Sin, yeah?"

"I… am not totally certain why you'd be abducted."

He shrugs. "I just was."

Auron... looks suddenly comforted by this. If his facial expressions can be interpreted like that.

"I mean, I could hazard some guesses," says Theo, looking at Kaede and then holding his gaze for slightly longer than perhaps necessary, "but I can think of reasons against them so no, not really sure on anything I'm afraid."

"Okay. Anyway, do go on."

"And then I explored a bit and there was a weird spatial distortion effect thing, but I got to some temple steps and at the top of them: was not a temple!"

"What was it instead?"

"City! Weird city that looked sort of like I was walking through someone's… dream-idea of a city, sort of had a central point and a person there, it was all very weird."

"Yeah! I saw that! And I saw... erm..."

"Saw what?"

"I... eheheheh never mind, what else did you find?"

"Wait, though, 'a person'?"

"… Disappearing guardians at Sin's control point – I, uh, mentioned this briefly."

"Okay so now you will mention it—"

"Kaede—"

"—at length," he insists.

"So there was a disappearing guardian," says Theo. "Who was there, in the middle of the city, and was – actually a guardian of your father's." Pause. "And Tidus's dad."

His head slowly turns to look at Auron.