I feel the end drawing near…

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(Her Decision…)

That night, after they had shut the door, I walked to the hut that Wakka, Lulu, and Chappu lived in. They asked all kinds of questions, but I didn't answer. The next day, while I lay in their bed, I heard people shouting in the square. Braska had received Valefor. He was ready to move on.

I almost expected them to come and see me, but they never did. They left me a letter, but I never read it. I did, though, look at the sphere they left me. It was snippets of my time with them; finding me on Mi'ihen, my first time in Luca, an amusing scene of me drunk on the Winno, Auron carrying me off of the Winno, me fighting the Lord Ochu in Kilika, our arrival at Besaid, the look on my face when Braska asked me to be his guardian, another amusing one of me going on a fiend massacre, and all of us standing in front of the Besaid Temple. It made me cry.

When they left and I didn't, Lulu and Wakka and Chappu didn't ask why. They just told me I was going to live with them. I think Braska asked them to. For a while, I didn't do anything. I didn't leave the hut, I didn't speak, I didn't look at anyone, and Lulu almost went mad trying to get me to eat. I felt I no longer had a reason to live; I had been abandoned by the people who I had come to see as a second family.

Then, one day, I found a new reason to live. A large blue creature, a Ronso named Kimahri, showed up in Besaid. He brought with him a little girl with one blue eye and one green. I was frightened by how small she was. I was frightened when she looked at me. I was frightened by the similarities she shared with Braska. She was Yuna. Auron had kept his promise.

When I asked Kimahri where Auron was, he just looked at me. He didn't have to speak. I knew. Auron was gone. When I realized this, I refused to cry. Instead, I looked at Yuna. She knew her father was dead, yet she didn't cry. I took strength from that. Braska defeated Sin and brought about the Calm, and Yuna grew as he had wanted her to; away from conflict.

Remember when I said I found a new reason to live? Well, it was Yuna. I guess it was how small she was that got me, but when she started crying and no one knew how to help her, my maternal instincts took over. The nuns in the Temple were upset when she took to liking my black magic tricks better than their toys. Though she lived in the Temple, she came to see me every day, and I cared for her. I became somewhat of a mother to her, and her a daughter to me.

When she got older and learned I had traveled with her father, she asked me all kinds of questions. They hurt, but I answered. It is, after all, what mothers do. It seemed like no time before Sin returned, and Yuna surprised us with something just as horrifying. She wanted to be a summoner. I think Chappu's death might have contributed to the idea, along with the stories about her father. Damn me and my mouth. I, right off, said no. Wakka and Lulu agreed with me, but they said that it was her decision. And, after living in Spira for as long as I had, I knew they were right.

Lulu was the first she asked to be her guardian. Then Wakka. Then me. Kimahri had long ago agreed to stay by her side, so he technically always had been one. It was like he was waiting for the journey to start before Sin had even returned. Lulu and Wakka agreed immediately to be guardians, as did I. As if I would let my baby fight that thing alone? Even if it was Jecht, like Auron had said, all those years ago, in the game…

When I started counting the years and months it had been since they had defeated Sin, I realized with mixed shock and anticipation that Tidus would soon be arriving, if my being in Spira hadn't changed things. I feared it had, mainly because Auron was dead here, yet alive in the game in my world. I hoped that I hadn't stopped Tidus from coming, because if he did, maybe Kimahri was wrong. Maybe Auron was still alive. Maybe I could see him again. And, maybe, this time things would go right.