This story is less action/adventure and more slice of life than the previous two. It also embraces multiple POVs throughout the different chapters, some you have experienced before - and others that you may have not. The first chapter is told as if you are listening to a radio show but the rest of the chapters are not like that.

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Not Mine

Radio - 7 Days Before the Coronation (Prologue)

Rin: This afternoon we are blessed to have her Lady herself in the studio! Good afternoon Lady Yuna.

Yuna: Good afternoon.

Rin: How are you doing on today of all days?

Yuna: Busy. Nervous.

Rin: Nervous? That's not exactly what I think the people want to hear from their new leader.

Yuna: Ah. I guess I should clarify. I don't want let Spira down. They've put so many of their hopes and dreams into my hands. I don't want to fail them.

Rin: I don't think we could ever consider you a failure.

Yuna: It could happen. You never know. There are so many cultures to consider, so many different people. You can't please everyone at once. But I still want to leave a legacy of happiness behind me.

Rin: Is that what you are striving for? A legacy of happiness?

Yuna: I want people to walk away from whatever I bring to Spria with joy in their hearts. But it's not just about happiness, it's about security, and love, and belonging. Home.

Rin: When you were on your pilgrimage you had a group of guardians that many believed didn't belong anywhere, you were a group of outcasts.

Yuna: Is there a question there? But yes - we were outcasts. We all had things we wanted to prove. But I don't think Spira could have been saved by anyone else. You can't just want to defeat something, although the want does need to be there. You have to stamp your foot, demand to be heard, go against what you've been taught and change your perspective a little. Problems won't be solved by doing the same thing over and over again. You have to dare to be different, cheesy as it sounds.

Rin: Sounds like those are traitorous thoughts there Lady Yuna.

Yuna: That is what people called me back then. I don't regret it.

Rin: Do you have any regrets?

Yuna: I think everyone has regrets. It's impossible not have any at all, but you can't wallow in them. You have to move on. To a brighter future.

Rin: Ah yes, the future - that little old thing. On the subject of it, in a few days New Zanarkand in Besaid will become Spira's new Capital City. How does that make you feel?

Yuna: Excited, progress usually incites that in me. Zanarkand was destroyed in the war, as were many things but I think it's important to not forget that part of our history. We have to look back at it and own how awful and terrible we were to each other. How angry. But we also have to learn from it, and make something new and beautiful from our desire to never go back to that dark place ever again. So we name it New Zanarkand and have faith that we will not destroy it like we once did. We will treat it as the special symbol of our future. As it should be.

Rin: You speak a lot of the future. Where do you hope to take Spira?

Yuna: Spira is already healing, already shedding its hate and its anger like an old skin. I want to continue that, but I want to expand. So many cities and towns were destroyed by Sin, so much culture and so many families. There is an area in the middle of the main continent where no one has been. I want to find what's there - to explore and create. That's what I want to do.

Rin: That's beautiful.

Yuna: Spira is beautiful.

Rin: What does that mean to you? That Spira is beautiful?

Yuna: The old leaders, Mika, Seymour, Kinoc, and others - saw beauty in death. If you'll let me speak ill of the dead for a second. They wanted to save us, but they did not question if Sin could be destroyed or not. They just assumed that it couldn't. So for them, Spira meant "Spiral of Death" and for them that was beautiful. But I don't think that's fair, or right. Their view of death wasn't a spiral. It was a cycle - a circle, round and endless but in a way where it never deviates. We are born, we live, we die. We repeat, we don't change. The end. But if we break that circle, and instead spiral endlessly upwards things change. Always and forever reaching for a better us, a better possibility. You don't stop going up, so when our spiral turns inward we can see bellow the parts of the spiral that we have already lived, and are given a chance to reflect on those lives and those choices. And then when that is over we are given a choice - accept those rules of self that we lived with as unflinching rules, and return to the circle, or make changes to better ourselves and continue to spiral forward into an unknown future. We don't reconnect, we can never go back. And to some people that's terrifying. But that's also what makes life worth living. That things are ever changing, ever growing. We die, but we don't die in the same world that we left behind. In this way Spira can truly spiral skyward now, with endless potential. That's why Spira is beautiful. "A Spiral of Change."

Rin: That's a lot to take in.

Yuna: It's a lot to say.

Rin: I think, you may have just broken the minds of the listeners.

Yuna: Oh no. I hope I didn't too much.

Rin: I think you've given our listeners something to think on. Do you have any final words?

Yuna: Is - to our future, too easy?

Rin: Not at all Lady Yuna.

Yuna: To our future then!

Rin: Next up - Guados, how do we forgive the unforgivable? Tromell will be here to give us his impressions, and Garik Ronso will be here to commentate as well.

A/N: And we're off! I cannot wait to share this final book with you. I hope you'll enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. As I noted the story reads a bit differently than the last books just because there isn't really a big bad to take down. The only enemy here is life, and the characters do a good job of defeating it.