"—alright!"

"I don't know how or why. And it... sounded like you had a theory?"

"I do, yeah. We were talking about how the conviction to kill Sin and the emotional bond between fayth powers each aeon, and how the Final Aeon differs for each High Summoner—"

"Oh motherfucker summoners have to turn one of their guardians into fayth."

"Yeah. That's... what I think happens. Summoners have to turn one of their guardians into fayth, the emotional bond they created over their pilgrimage being much stronger than anything you can do by meditating with a person who died hundreds of years ago, strong enough to create an aeon that can defeat Sin. But Sin always comes back, somehow.

"Now imagine you're some kind of spirit thing and your body has just been killed but you have this other incredibly powerful magical construct right there next to you..."

"...you think it's possession?"

"Or a corruption of some kind, something that causes the Final Aeon to become Sin. I don't know. The fact that Sir Auron has been sort of arguably alive for ten years in your Zanarkand suggests something weird is going on, but... yeah. Something like that."

"...wow. So, but you said that's heretical? People don't know this, and just go on a pilgrimage to Zanarkand and then sacrifice one of their closest friends or loved ones..."

"Yeah."

"Lady Yunalesca came up with this? It's a shit plan. Did she know?"

"I don't know if she knew, but right now, there's no better plan that anyone knows of.

"Which ties back into what I told you. I am very full of myself and I will find a better plan. If I get to Zanarkand and that's all that can be done, I won't do it, and I'll figure something else out. I'll comb through all of the ruins to find ancient records that might explain anything, I'll sneak into Bevelle's archives, I'll go to the Farplane and find Lady Yunalesca myself or anyone from back then, I will figure something else out."

"I'm coming with you. There's, there's no fucking way I'm not. My Zanarkand has been destroyed, clearly there's something I'm meant to do here, something Auron thought I could do here, it can't be a coincidence. And if no one else is trying this... or even if they are, if there's anyone else who is trying to find a better way, then we will find them and work with them. But I'm not leaving, I'm not going anywhere, I am staying with you. You can wait until we get to the next temple to make it official but I will be your guardian."

"Alright. Yeah. Let's do it."

"And um. Thank you."

"I couldn't do anything else. Now come on, main character, it's time to get up and go."

He smiles, slightly. "Yes, sir."