"Yuna?" I called out. She didn't answer, though I waited. Everything was hazy; the sky was green and clouds flew by faster than I had ever seen. There was a dark figure moving around in the shadows. "Yuna!" I called again.
The figure emerged from the darkness, but it was not Yuna. "What? You gonna cry again?" My father chuckled at me.
"What are you doing here?" I sneered.
Instead of answering me, he said mockingly, "What makes you think you can protect her, huh? How can you protect anyone when all you want to do is sit down and cry?"
"That's not true!" I shouted. "What do you know, anyway? You were never there long enough to know me at all!"
"I can judge a book by its cover, son," he replied, laughing.
"Don't call me 'son.' " I glared at him with fire in my eyes.
"Why not?" He leaned in closer, suddenly seeming larger. "You gonna cry?" He seemed to grow bigger still. "Is my little boy gonna break down and cry?" He was instantly enormous, his skin grey and scaly, his mouth wide and ferocious: Sin.
"No! No, I won't let you hurt her!" I shouted. "I won't let you hurt anyone ever again! No—no!"
"Tidus!"
"No, stop it, no—I won't! Yuna!" I yelled in fragmented sentences.
"Tidus, I'm right here!" She was shaking me, trying to wake me. It had all been a dream. I opened my eyes slowly. There she was before me. "Are you all right?" She put a soft hand on my forehead, brushing away my moistened locks of blonde hair.
"I'm all right now." I sat up and looked around. The others were all awake too, simply standing around my bed, staring. "Was I that loud?"
"I'm surprised you didn't wake the dead," Lulu said darkly.
I gave her a sheepish look. "Erm…sorry, guys. It was just a dream." I was silent for a moment. "It seemed so real, though," I added thoughtfully.
"Maybe it was a vision," Yuna suggested.
"Huh?" I grunted.
"Well," she began, "there's some truth to every dream, isn't there?" I shrugged. "So, why not yours too? Why don't you tell me what you dreamt?"
I glanced at Auron, who was watching me skeptically. "Um…I don't think so. I'm pretty sure it was just a nightmare."
"Oh." Yuna looked disappointed, but I couldn't tell her about my old man being Sin.
"Back to sleep, everyone," Auron said roughly. "We have another long day ahead of us." He stared at me, waiting for the others to file out of the room. He knew. Somehow he knew what I had dreamt. Jecht was always on my mind, but he was also always on his. He nodded to me, as if in recognition of how I had nearly jeopardized the mission, but saved it at the last moment. He turned down the light and closed the door.