"– I have no idea what that means enough to figure out if we can disable him somehow else."

"It means we probably can't disable him."

"Can we alter what he perceives, or directly – change what he believes? Is there any… mind control magic, or something?"

"Yu Yevon no longer meaningfully has beliefs, or a mind."

"… Can we metamagic his magic, then, to modify the machinery and change what it's aiming to optimize or whatever?"

"Metamagic is not very much of a thing."

"Enough a thing we might be able to make headway on swapping out the caster, though, still?"

Helpless shrug.

    "Do you still wish to be joined with me?"

"—yes, probably."

"The process will still work with me here?" checks Theo.

   "If you will not disrupt her concentration."

"Probably easiest if you go."

He nods. "See you in a bit?"

"See you."

He waves and makes his way out.

"So? Find anything?"

"Yu Yevon was a person who has now turned magic being without humanity who attempts to preserve the other Zanarkand which is a dream of the fayth and he uses Sin to do this because apparently there was a war at some point in the past which risked it." Theo rolls his eyes. "Overall: tangled mess of awful."

"You wanna back up some?"

"We got details on what was up with it all. Turns out there's this guy from a while ago who set the whole system up, and the fayth are bound to help him somehow."

"Set it how?"

"With magic? Dream Zanarkand exists as a dream of the fayth, it's all magic, and he – I don't know, it was somehow his weird pet project?"

"...why?"

"Unknown. Sadly he's not available for consult."

"We should probably wait for Kaede."

"– I don't know how long it typically takes for them to – join."

"It can take a while."

"… So should I attempt to explain the other details we learnt in there?"