He shakes his head.

"...you said you visited our Zanarkand, right? Is it... like Tidus' Zanarkand?"

"Full of the ghosts-or-something of ex-summoners and guardians," says Theo. "Think I already mentioned that, got reprimanded for non-linear storytelling?"

"Right, but I mean, is it a copy of the living and breathing one?"

"It's like a replay of the scene just before Yunalesca got them."

"The city, not the ghosts."

"Oh – no, it's a bunch of ruins. I mean, it's recognizably the same place, but still, ruins."

"But this—Tidus' Zanarkand, Tidus, Jecht—this isn't how unsent work."

"I'm not dead!" he insists.

"...it could be how spheres work..."

"Sphere holograms aren't solid. The amount of magic it would take..."

"...aeons are solid."

"So have I mentioned that there's a very horrifying idea here?"

"Sure, this isn't already terrible enough, what is it?"

"Well, I think it might have already been hinted at, but since they're magic, something is presumably sustaining that. I thought it could be just possibly that perhaps the fayth were because – basically I saw Tidus's face in a bubble of water near some statues."

"What?"

"Which fayth? Where?"

"After I left other-Zanarkand, I flew along for ages because it turns out it's inconveniently far away, found this-Zanarkand, went through the Cave Of Terrors or whatever it is, and then the other side of that basically was a collection of statues lit up weirdly in blue and a spring and some hovering water."

"...I need to ask a fayth about it."

"Are there any conveniently in Guadosalam, like, I don't recall seeing one but I might have just missed it?"

"No, the next fayth on the list is in Macalania."

"… That was the other side of the Thunder Plains, if I recall."

"Yeah."

Theo sighs. "So, is that our next step then? Because if so we might want to get done with– whatever it was here."

"Yeah I'm going to need to talk to Maester Seymour but." He looks at Tidus. "Yeah."