"I've, uh, just gotten kidnapped," Noctis told her. "Mostly people have been talking about how not to stare out the windows, how we're not getting home, but. I read the pamphlet thing, kind of. I think I got the gist of it."

He read the whole thing carefully, but he's used to people considering him a slacker, and Noctis was too practiced at playing into that to say otherwise.

"If you're next going to ask me why I'm not freaking out, I am, trust me," Noctis told her. "But it doesn't seem to be anyone's fault, not those who are stuck here like us."