"Do Al Bhed and the other races not typically interact much…?"

"We're a bit isolated but we play Blitzball and stuff, why?"

"It sounds like you have a lot of information that nobody else seems to have and everyone else seems to have a lot of assumptions you find extremely weird."

"Well, lots of Al Bhed didn't think cactuars were people either."

"Do a lot of them think they're fiends or just… not people?"

"Some of both."

He shrugs. "I'm confused, then."

"By what?"

"Why people think cactuars are fiends."

"Most non Al Bhed don't even know about cactuars."

Shrug. "I'm not sure we can do anything about that statue, though."

"...it said sign of the fayth..."

"… Which is something I'm meant to know about?" asks Theo. "Was it the pool thing, or…?"

"—pool thing? Sign of the fayth is this," and he does the typical greeting where he extends his hands out away from his body and then brings them back together in a ball shape, bowing.

"– Oh." Pause. "Anyway, I told you about the pool thing, with the fayth statues and the maybe-Tidus face in the floating water?"

"Oh, right, that. What about it?"

"I thought it might have been the sign of the fayth. Just an uneducated guess, never mind."

"The pool is a sign...? Anyway, whatever, if these Qactuars aren't actually fiends... we should maybe free them."

"If we can conveniently get one out to check? It might turn out they had a grudge against the people in this area, could be quite inconvenient to handle right now?"

"...I'm pretty sure I prefer them to be free of stones that have held them for hundreds of years than not regardless of how inconvenient that could be."

"Right, unless it turns out they'll start some war of vengeance and try to kill everyone they see, and I'm not saying we never let them out, just that we only do one if possible first and then plan accordingly from then."

"I'm not sure I don't prefer a war of vengeance to a whole species having no mouth and needing to scream..."

"… I don't know what the impact of a war of vengeance would be on this place, and I don't know how many of them there are."

"Not enough that most people even know about them," he shrugs.

"There are not a lot of cactuars in Bikanel, either."