Garnet turned round quickly, cursing her stupid-ness. The people she was serving had said that a man was looking at her, and, thinking it was Kuja, she had turned round and looked him straight in the eyes. His eyes were the same as Kuja, but then a blonde hair flicked across in front of them, and Garnet realised who it was. She took the people she was serving's order, nearly ran back to the bar, placed down the order and grabbed Ruby.

'What's he doing here?' she screeched at her and gestured to the blond guy sitting, being served by a bar maid. Ruby looked and put her hands to her mouth.

'Oh my God! I don't know! Quick, go up to my room and through the window, onto the emergency stairs and out. Go home!' she called after Garnet as she was running up the stairs. Garnet turned her head round and nodded, mouthing 'thank you' as she climbed the last step.

Zidane asked his waiter who the newest waiter was, and the waitress was more than happy to tell him.

'She's a right one. She does her work and all, but her accent is cut-glass and its like she's hiding from someone.' She said one time. At the end of the play, Zidane went and found Ruby, in the same room they had in talked earlier.

'Your new waitress. What's her name?' he asked as he closed the door behind them.

'Da…ra.' Ruby said, changing it before she said Dagger. Zidane nodded slowly, leaning on the closed door,

'Where does she live?' He asked and Ruby stopped checking over her statues.

'Why do you want to know?' she asks, thinking fast.

'Where does she live?' Zidane asked again and clenches his fists.

'That is private information…' Ruby started but Zidane grabbed her with one hand and slammed her against the wall. When Ruby dared to open her eyes, he was standing in front of her, a fierce look on his face, holding his dagger above his head.

'Tell me!' he said through gritted teeth and Ruby remembered all the times they had stolen treasure and been caught, Zidane hadn't even thoughts twice of diving his dagger into the person's arm.

'2…21, Machine way, Industrial District.' She squeaked out and Zidane let her go. Still holding the dagger in his hand he looked down at the floor.

'Sure?' he asked.

'Positive. Would I lie to you?' she didn't mean to say the last bit. It just slipped out. Zidane smiled wearily. 'Look, Zidane. What if…when you find Dagger…She doesn't want to come back to the Castle? To you? What if she's moved on?' Ruby said and Zidane looked away.

'She will.' Is all he said and then he walked out the door, went to the air station and got on a train to the industrial district.

Ruby was too shocked to even pick up the phone, never mind warn Dagger about Zidane. Zidane was hanging everything he had up on Dagger. He was going to fall so badly…

Eiko and Vivi sat on the steps to the boat that took them into the town. Watching the water ripple as the raindrops hit it. They hadn't talked much, but suddenly Vivi sat up and turned to Eiko. The 'adults' were too busy to worry about this tiny matter, but Vivi had such a bad feeling about it. He needed to check some things out.

'Eiko, did you open up the Iifa tree again?' Eiko's head shot up.

'No…why would I do a thing like that?' she asked and Vivi suddenly got up.

'Someone has!' he said and looked around, as if expecting the acclaimed was standing behind them. Eiko bit her lip.

'There's nothing we can do at the moment.' She said, trailing her foot in the water. 'I'll check it out when I get back to Lindblum but for now…' Vivi focused on her horn and nodded meekly. He sat down next to Eiko again and looked in the water. It was getting dark and people behind them were lighting lamps with fire. Vivi watched the reflection of the fire in the water and closed his eyes in sorrow.

'What…did happen that night.' Eiko asked in a whisper, sensing Vivi's sadness and wanting to try to help with it, and the first part of helping is understanding what you are dealing with. Vivi didn't look at her; he looked up at the stars. She was just beginning to think he wasn't going to tell her when he started talking.

'We had all been laughing and stuff that night, all of us, the genomes and the black mages together, feeling like a proper family. A few black mages went out to get more firewood for the huge fire we were doing, leaving the barrier down for five minutes. It only took those few five minutes. We heard screams from them and a few black mages, me included, went to go look for them… Then we saw the humans. They were huddled round one of the black mages, poking it with a pitchfork.' Vivi closed his eyes again and a tear fell into the water. 'They turned round and saw us, and went for us too. I was still small then, so I got away under the others' legs and back to the village, but I was too late, the humans had got past the black mages and were already in the village. They saw the genomes with us and killed them too!' Vivi picked up a stone and threw it with all his might into the middle of the lake. 'I watched them as they cornered Mikoto, Eiko…' Vivi faded off as he saw the humans surrounding Mikoto in the Black mage graveyard and stabbing her in the chest with a spade. He saw the spade come out the other side of her, heard the cracks as it broke many of her ribs and her backbone. He couldn't shake the image from his head. No child should have seen that, heard that. 'I only escaped because I ran away.' Vivi said, trying to carry on talking, telling, but he saw the humans flame the buildings in black mage village, saw then high-five each other, and knew that there was nothing he could do to stop them.

Eiko put her arm round the lone survivor of Black mage village and he leaned his head on her shoulder and cried. She didn't say that crying was for babies, she didn't push him off, she looked up at the sky and let the tears fall too, for all the genomes and Black mages that were killed for no reason.