"A while," Tidus admits. "It wasn't that long, but it felt like forever at the time. Everything was a wreck -- I showed up outside first and had to swim in, and it was freezing too. All stone, and everything was damp!"

He thought was going to freeze to death, but, well, they can skip that.

"It was lucky I did get out. Some Al Bhed ended up finding me -- even though they thought I was a fiend at first. Sometimes that happens there. You get Unsent hovering around lookin' like humans, but they're too far gone. But!" on a cheerier note, "they let me on their ship, and I got some food and water from them!"