The soul of Sin
"Gods! Look at the time. It's eight o'clock at night! We must have spent hours in the Farplane!" Shiava gasped.
"I guess we'll have to stay in this pit of despair for the night" said Tidus. Auron gave him a dour look.
"Let's just look for an inn" said Lulu.
The sorceress was about to walk off to find one, when a voice echoed through the streets. "Let all mourn the loss! Let all grieve in sorrow for the damned!"
"What in the name of Erth, Darkness, and Keeper is going on?" asked Lulu crabbily.
Auron held up a hand to silence her. "Something is wrong" he said. "The Guado do not have public displays of mourning."
"Then let's find out what's happening!" said Tidus. He began to walk toward the sound of the voice.
"Come back!" shouted Auron. "Why doesn't he ever listen to me?"
A man in the garb of a warrior monk was walking through the streets shouting. His silver armor was covered with ash and dirt, and his grip on his AK-47 was loose. The man looked like he had been traveling for days, and from the hoarseness of his voice he had been shouting this for days too. He was so busy shouting that he didn't notice Tidus, who grabbed him by the breastplate of his silver armor.
"Hey! Let me go!" he shouted.
"Why are you going around, waking people up at this time of night?" asked Lulu severely.
The monk's response was strange. "We have discovered who Sin has chosen!" he said.
Tidus began to shake him. "Who!? Who did Sin choose? Who suffered the same damnation as my old man?!" When the monk didn't answer at first, Tidus shook him even harder. "Answer me, you bastard!"
"Stop shaking him!" yelled Shiava. "Let him talk!"
Tidus made a visible effort to calm down. "Okay" he said, breathing heavily, "tell us what happened."
The soldier of Yevon swallowed. "Th…the details are sketchy, but…but the higher ups are sure that the person Sin has chosen was a girl named Arenna Cedric, the illegitimate daughter of Lord Hugh Cedric, a prominent Yevon official." The man swallowed. "There is evidence to support this. Lady Arenna highly enjoyed a song Someday. The song has been known to drive Sin away. Not only in Luca, but several times afterward, Sin seems to have been calmed by the song. 'Music charms the savage beast' as they say."
Shiava swallowed hard. This wasn't good. As long as they didn't know what had happened to make Arenna Sin, they couldn't discover his secret. But the people of Spira were getting closer and closer to the truth. Closer than Shiava liked.
As they got ready for bed in the inn they heard people whispering about the news that the monk had brought from Bevelle.
"What does this mean?" asked Rikku curiously. She seemed to have gotten over her sadness from the Farplane.
"It means that there is someone who became Sin" said Yuna sadly. She frowned suddenly. "Sin is created by the monster forging its body around an unwilling soul. But that can only be accomplished by the Final Aeon technique. I wonder how this happened…"
"Well I'm really tired, so I'm going to turn in for the night. I know we have to get up early in the morning if we want to get across the Thunder Plains and into Macalania Wood by dusk tomorrow" said Shiava hurriedly. However, Shiava got no sleep that night.