"When it was hiding away doing nothing. And sometimes he could nudge it a bit, he said?"

"And what could someone who wanted to encourage Sin's more antisocial tendencies do?" he wonders.

"Nudge it to attack more often? But I'm not sure if they could do it much – I said it sort of went dormant, right, and you sort of knew that already – it might be hard to move it out of that state. Or, maybe not."

"The way magic works, feelings add up or mix and that's where the power comes from. If someone wants to help Sin, I'm not at all sure that won't actually work."

"… I don't understand why he'd – what motivation he'd have to do this. The guado – Jyscal – said he'd become twisted?"

"Well, he could just be really traumatised, what with the thing with his mother."

Wakka looks like he wants to say something but ultimately decides against it.

"I guess people don't always have the most reasonable responses to stuff like that."

"So I guess the question is, what do we do about that? If it's false it's ridiculous, if it's true it's—he is one of the four most powerful people on Spira."

"Along with who else?"

"Maester Kelk Ronso, Minister of Civil Affairs; Maester Wen Kinoc, Minister of Military Affairs, head of the Warrior Monks and overseer of the Crusaders; and Grand Maester Yo Mika, leader of all the peoples of Spira. Maester Seymour is the Minister of Temple Affairs, who maintains the temples' rituals and teachings and oversees the summoners."

"… Okay, so he's pretty strongly linked to the church and also summoners. I'm guessing there are no convenient 'detect evil motive' spells we could use?"

"Magic cannot read minds, no."

"And I'm guessing it also can't predict the future…?"

"It cannot."

"So we don't seem to have any convenient ways to verify whether he is insane and-or evil, and a really bad potential fallout if he is."

"That seems to about sum it up, yes."

"Would anything particularly tragic happen if he went missing for, say, a month? – I am not suggesting it happen, just trying to work out how much he's holding things together."

"Not really. Other than people panicking his duties can be done by his immediate underlings."

"What sort of level of magic do most people have around here? And do you know if he does a lot of magic – I assume he does some?"

"All Maesters of Yevon are proficient at magic, but most people aren't."

"So we would probably have issues if we tried kidnapping him anyway."

"And we don't actually have enough evidence that we should."

"No," agrees Theo. "But if we did need to. It seems like we might struggle."

"Well, he just wants to use Sin, right? So... do we have to change anything? We just go and kill Sin and fix everything!"