I woke up in a hanging cell with Auron.

"Let us out of here!" I screamed.

"They can't hear you."

"Where is everybody?"

"In another cell."
"Enough talking, you are to stand trial." The guard yelled as they pulled us out of the cage. They took us to a dark chamber, as the lights slowly brightened a podium with all the symbols of the Fayth appeared, there were two that I didn't recognize. A booming voice started to speak. A Ronso Maester stood behind the podium.

"The High Court of Yevon is now in session. The sacred offices of this court seek nothing but absolute truth, in Yevon's name. To those on trial: Believe in Yevon, and speak only the truth."

"Maester Klek Ronso!" Lulu whispered.

"Summoner Yuna, you have sworn to protect the people of Yevon, true?" He bellowed.

"Yes."

"Then consider! You have inflicted dire injury upon Maester Seymour Guado, conspired with the Al Bhed and joined in their insurrection. These are traitorous and unforgivable crimes that disturb the order of Yevon. Tell this court what possessed you to participate in such violence."

"Your Grace… The real traitor is Maester Seymour! He killed his father Jyscal with his own hands!"

"What is this?" Klek shouted turning to the other Maesters.

"Hmm? Hadn't you heard?" Seymour said with a smirk.

"Not only that… Maester Seymour is already dead!" Yuna explained desperately.

"It is a Summoner's sacred duty to send the souls of the departed to the Farplane! Yuna was only doing her job as a Summoner!" Lulu shouted out to them.

"Grand Maester Mika… Please, send Seymour now!"

"Send the unsent to where they belong?" Mika asked petulantly.

"Yes" She nodded. Maester Mika started to laugh, I for one didn't like the sound of it. "Maester?"

"Send the dead… hm?" Mika asked, pyerflies spilled from the body of Maester Mika.

"So you mean he's already dead?" I shouted, it was completely ridiculous.

"Listen." Auron ordered.

"You would have to send me, too," Mika stated.

"What?" Wakka shouted, his eyes were about to bug out of his sockets.

"Grand Maester Mika is a wise leader. Even in death, he is invaluable to Spira," Klek explained.

"Enlightened rule by the dead is preferable to the misguided failures of the living," Kinoc gloated.

"Life is but a passing dream," Seymour said. "But the death that follows is eternal."

"Men die. Beasts die. Trees die. Even continents perish. Only the power of death truly commands in Spira. Resisting its power is futile."

"But What of Sin?" Yuna begged. "I am a Summoner, my lord, like my father before me! I am on a pilgrimage to stop the death that Sin brings. Are you… Are you telling me that too, is futile? Grand Maester Mika. I am not alone! All the people who have opposed Sin… their battles, their sacrifices—were they all in vain?"

"Not in vain, no matter how many Summoners give their lives, Sin cannot be stopped. Yet the courage of those who fight gives the people hope. There is nothing futile in the life and death of a Summoner."

"Never futile… but never ending."

"Indeed, that is the essence of Yevon."

"Lord Mika!" Yuna shouted to him.

"Yevon is embodied by eternal, unchanging continuity, Summoner,"

"No… that can't be right!" Yuna was trembling. Lulu was on the verge of tears and Wakka looked like he was going to vomit, I could see Rikku getting angrier by the second and Kimahri just stood there. Auron had known about all this, hadn't he? I didn't know what to think.

As I watched Yuna stand up there on the platform she got smaller and smaller, everything she'd believed in was a sham, everything they'd all believed in, and atoned for. It was sickening.

"Those who question these truths—they are traitors!"

"Lord Mika!"

After the trial we were led back to our cells.

"Aaah! Get me Outta here! I want out now! You hear me?"

"You waste your breath." Auron told me, I calmed down a little bit, but not much.

"Man, I hope Yuna's okay." And everyone else I thought.

"She's strong, she'll make it."

"She'll make it? What so she can die? Why is it… everything in Spira seems to revolve around people dying?"

"Ahhh, the spiral of death."

"Huh?"

"Summoners challenge the bringer of death, Sin, and die doing so. Guardians give their lives to protect their Summoner. The Fayth are the souls of the dead. Even the Maesters of Yevon are unsent. Spira is full of death. Only Sin is reborn, and then only to bring more death, it is a cycle of death, spiraling endlessly." Auron gave me just the pep talk I needed. Maester Kinoc came to the cell finally.

"Come out, your sentence has been decided."

"Sentence?" Auron said, raising an eyebrow. "Don't you mean execution?"

"Really now, what person would execute a dear friend?" Kinoc asked with a smile.

"You would." He said bitterly.

After that Auron and I were separated, guards led me to a giant waterway, basinets in hand.

"Looks like you're next!" the guard said, poking me in the back with the blade.

"Next for what?" but before I could get an answer he shoved me into the water.

"Get going!" The guard shouted at me.

"Where's everybody else?"

"Floating down there somewhere, maybe." I swam down a long underwater tunnel, eventually I found and opening. There I found Wakka.