Roland catches the slightest hint of that light, and chooses to hold on to it however small. It's something. But before he can even think it, Hibber-Gibber is first to respond to Tidus, though Roland will only hear squeaks on his end of the line.
Young sojourner, they did not know their lives were stuck in an endless loop, hiig! They did not know for all that time! And so hope could not spring forth, no beginning without the end! Piggle!
"Hm. Well, when we visited them, Hydropolis felt like a police state. The citizens were pretty discontent that they couldn't do much of anything. They were kept on constant vigil by the Queen, put in jail if it felt like they were disobeying her orders. All to keep the spell in place." He chuckles, and the hold over Tidus feels like they're just chatting again, the heavy fog lifting slowly but surely.
"When you first told me about Zanarkand, before...It got me thinking a lot. Coming back on the train, I thought about this little chapter in our adventure back home and, well. It reminded me of you. And the ending isn't the happiest, but maybe dark skies don't always mean rain. That's why I got you this little fella, specifically." He offers the back of his hand for Hibber-Gibber to take, and it does thankfully, riding on it until he's offered gently back to Tidus. Water on its head bubbling up calmly.
"...Look out for him, okay?" Roland directs it to high higgledy, and it all but coos, jumping and twirling in the air before it reappears in a flash of light by Tidus's midsection once more. He'd like to think that that was an affirmation, a promise made.
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Young sojourner, they did not know their lives were stuck in an endless loop, hiig! They did not know for all that time! And so hope could not spring forth, no beginning without the end! Piggle!
"Hm. Well, when we visited them, Hydropolis felt like a police state. The citizens were pretty discontent that they couldn't do much of anything. They were kept on constant vigil by the Queen, put in jail if it felt like they were disobeying her orders. All to keep the spell in place." He chuckles, and the hold over Tidus feels like they're just chatting again, the heavy fog lifting slowly but surely.
"When you first told me about Zanarkand, before...It got me thinking a lot. Coming back on the train, I thought about this little chapter in our adventure back home and, well. It reminded me of you. And the ending isn't the happiest, but maybe dark skies don't always mean rain. That's why I got you this little fella, specifically." He offers the back of his hand for Hibber-Gibber to take, and it does thankfully, riding on it until he's offered gently back to Tidus. Water on its head bubbling up calmly.
"...Look out for him, okay?" Roland directs it to high higgledy, and it all but coos, jumping and twirling in the air before it reappears in a flash of light by Tidus's midsection once more. He'd like to think that that was an affirmation, a promise made.