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-Seifer's POV-

From tunnel into another, catwalk after catwalk... Where's the city? Maybe there is no city, maybe all they've got are these hynedamn tunnels.

"W-what?" Quistis suddenly says and stops.

We all look around. It's a dead end. Great.

"What now?" Selphie asks frustrated.

Then the platform we're standing on starts moving. It's taking us forward, deeper into the tunnel.

"Barriers would've been nice," Squall mumbles, straightening himself after falling towards me at the suddent movement. "How the hell are you supposed to---"

The tunnel ends. And what do you know, there's a city before us. The shield around it has started to pull back and everybody gasps at the sight. Except for me, of course. I don't tend to gasp. But I do understand their reaction to this, it's magnificent.

"It's so.... wonderful," Selphie says quietly.

"So... big," Zell says.

"Just as the legends tell," Matron says.

The platform takes us thru the city with huge speed. Yup, some barriers would've been nice.

Finally, the speed seems to slow down. We're approaching a building. The rails we're on end there. There's a sort of acar or something waiting there, and a man standing next to it.

As the platform has stopped, the man greets us.

"Sorceress Edea?"

"Yes."

"We have been waiting for you."

"Really?" It sounds more like a statement than a question.

"This way, please," the man says and motions for us to get into the car.

The ride thru the city is just as amazing as the one into the city, if not even better.

"I didn't know buildings that big existed.." Quistis says quietly, staring out the car window.

"That's the Presidential Palace," the man says. "Our destination."

Presidential...? Squall's father... I glance at Squall. He glances at me simultaneously.

We exit the car in front of the Palace and follow the man inside. We sit on somekinda floating seat that takes us upstairs thru somekinda blue tunnel. This place is too weird...

We're taken into a cozy room that has a lotta couches.

"Can I see Dr Odine?" Matron asks our guide once we're in the room.

A short man with a huge colorful collar enters the room, walking in a funny wobbly way. "I am dr Odine," he says with a weird accent.

"I am Sorceress Edea."

"I know who you are."

"I have come to ask for your help. I'm afraid Sorceress Ultimecia might possess me again."

"Yez."

"And I wish to stop that."

"Zat vill be eazy," the doc says. "Follow me." He wobbles back into the room he came from.

Matron turns to us, nodds, and follows the weird little man.

Squall glances at me, inhales and goes to the man standing next to the door. "Can I meet the President?"

"Why?"

"I believe... that we might have something in common."

Yup, half their blood.

The man nodds. "I'll see what I can arrange."

But before he arranges anything, a tall man in a funny long dress enters the room.

"Is there a Squall Leonhart here?"

"I am."

"The President wishes to see you."

Squall turns to me. "Will you come with me?"

I nodd. "Of course."

"Let's go then," the tall man says. "He's waiting for you."