Scene Six: Braska sucks it up
[Before Braska gets very far, he runs into Maester Mika. Mika has some choice words for his son. Braska is in no mood to listen, however.]
Braska: No more questions, please.
No more tests.
Comes the day you say,
'What for?'
Please... no more.
Maester Mika: We disappoint, we disappear, we die, but we don't.
They disappoint in turn,
I fear,
Forgive, though, they won't.
Braska: No more riddles.
No more jests.
No more curses you can't undo, left by fathers you never knew.
No more quests.
No more feelings.
Time to shut the door.
Just...
No more.
Maester Mika: Running away, let's do it.
Free from the ties that bind.
No more despair, or burdens to bear,
Out there in the yonder.
Running away, go to it.
Where did you have in mind?
Have to take care... unless there's a 'where',
You'll only be wandering blind.
Just more questions... different kind.
Where are we to go?
Where are we ever to go?
Running away, we'll do it.
Why sit around, resigned?
Trouble is, son, the farther you run,
The more you'll be wandering blind.
For what you have left undone, and more,
What you've left behind.
We disappoint, we leave a mess, we die, but we don't.
Braska: We disappoint in turn, I guess.
Forget, though, we won't.
Both: Like father, like son.
[Braska tries to send Maester Mika, but he disappears first.]
Braska: No more giants waging war!
Can't we just pursue our lives, with our children and our wives,
'Til that happy day arrives, how do you ignore
All the mages, all the curses,
All the fiends, all the lies, the false hopes, the good-byes,
The reverses,
All the wondering what even worse is still in store!
All the children.
All the giants…
No more.
[Braska finally decides to return to the group. The others are where he left them, trying fruitlessly to think of a plan. Yuna summons the Magus sisters, who report Yunalesca's location. The group then decides to spread pitch on the ground to catch the giantess, and then slay her from behind. Or something to that effect. In any case, Yuna stays with the baby, Rikku goes to spread the pitch and Braska and Tidus climb a tree to draw Yunalesca into their trap. Meanwhile, Sir Auron wanders through. Yuna confronts him with his infidelity and tells him she cannot return with him. He is puzzled and a little saddened, but leaves her in the woods. Rikku returns upset by the new knowledge that her grandmother is gone. Braska breaks the news to Tidus that Wakka is dead. Both Rikku and Tidus have trouble coping with their respective losses.]
Yuna: Mother cannot guide you.
Now you're on your own.
Only me beside you.
Still, you're not alone.
No one is alone.
Truly.
No one is alone.
Sometimes people leave you
Halfway through the wood.
Others may deceive you.
You decide what's good.
You decide alone.
But no one is alone.
Rikku: I wish…
Yuna: I know.
Mother isn't here now.
Braska: Wrong things, right things.
Yuna: Who knows what she'd say?
Braska: Who can say what's true?
Yuna: Nothing's quite so clear now.
Braska: Do things, fight things,
Yuna: Feel you've lost your way?
Braska: You decide, but
Both: You are not alone.
Yuna: Believe me,
Both: No one is alone
Yuna: Truly
Both: You move just a finger,
Say the slightest word,
Something's bound to linger,
Be heard.
People make mistakes.
Braska: Fathers,
Yuna: Mothers,
Both: People make mistakes,
Holding to their own,
Thinking they're alone.
Yuna: Honor their mistakes—
Braksa: Fight for their mistakes—
Yuna: Everybody makes—
Both: One another's terrible mistakes.
Mages can be right, giants can be good.
You decide what's right, you decide what's good.
Yuna: Just remember:
Braska: [echo] Just remember:
Both: Someone is on your side.
Tidus, Rikku: OUR side.
Braska, Yuna: Our side—
Someone else is not.
While we're seeing our side—
Tidus, Rikku: Our side…
Braska, Yuna: Our side—
All: Maybe we forgot: they are not alone.
No one is alone.
Yuna: Hard to see the light now.
Braska: Just don't let it go.
Both: Things will come out right now.
We can make it so.
Someone is on your side—
[Yunalesca arrives and the band succeed in slaying her with a couple overdrives. Eventually all the remaining main characters (Rikku, Tidus, Yuna, and Braska) decide to live as one happy family. The dead (Who at this point are all unsent, since none of the summoners have seen fit to perform a sending in all the chaos) return to speak their final piece before Yuna sends them on their way to the Farplane. ]