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Vanille was the one who pointed out that everything more or less began the day the two woke up.

Lightning came home to an empty house that day. Serah, who was normally home by then, had lost track of time reading up on what little there was on the Vestige in the library.

Snow spent the day planning the very same monster hunt that would end in him meeting lightning for the first time.

Sazh received a bonus, and that was what made him decide to surprise Dajh with a trip to the Euride Gorge.

Hope found out his dad couldn't make the trip to Bodhum that day.

And me? I think I would have been involved no matter what because of what I am.

But stories that end have to begin somewhere, right?