Part Two – Creating the Recto
Chapter One
1 Months, 3 weeks, 5 days B.E.C.
She lied.
IT was something she didn't do often, mostly cause she didn't do it very well, but still she found herself lying as she watched everyone enter the farplane. She couldn't help it. She could smile while they fought fiends and lied to Wakka about who she was. She could stay chipper as she watched the determination in her cousin's eyes grow as the journeyed forward with Rikku as her Guardian.
But she couldn't smile at the idea of seeing Gippal on the farplane.
She could tell Tidus that her memories were inside her but it wasn't true. They were screaming to et out of her. So she lied. She sat outside, pointedly facing away from Auron.
"You're lying."
"Why don't you keep to yourself, old man?"
"No. Now, an Al Bhed who could cast her beliefs so far aside as to join a Summoner's Pilgrimidge wouldn't have any qualms about going to the farplane."
"It's a personal choice."
"Who don't you want to see?"
The question struck her hard and for a moment she couldn't speak. She didn't bother asking who he knew; she hadn't been in his presence five minutes before seeing that he was the sort that knew everything. She merely wondered why he asked.
"Why do you want to know?"
"No reason, particularly. Except perhaps because you should know that by just denying it, you won't change the fact that they're gone."
"I just don't want to confirm it."
He paused a moment. "Operation Mi'hen?"
"No. Just before."
"Is there any hope that they could have survived?"
"It isn't just our memories that we keep inside."
"Maybe they are."
"You never seemed like the type to encourage false hope. Why are you?"
"Hope can never be false. It's just hope. And isn't that what a Summoner's party is for, to keep hope alive?"
"I didn't think you are a very hopeful person, Auron. I think you are just determined."
"Perhaps."
Silence reigned for a moment before he broke it again.
"Was he determined?"
"He promised to defeat Sin before Yuna could."
She heard him laugh and a little spark of hope that she had almost let die sprang to life. She began to think of going out onto the farplane when they came back out.
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