"I'm not askin' if you need it," came a reply that was every bit as stubborn as his eyes had been. "I'm sayin' it's there when you do. I'm sayin' if you choke it down enough and pretend it ain't there, then you're gonna break. Might just be a little crack, Rikku. But it's there. Now and then, I get to see it. Put enough pressure on a crack, it splits even more."

Put too much pressure on a crack, and you end up with all the information you ever wanted, and then some, all spilling out at once, and that wasn't how Reno wanted to find out about it. Not from Rikku splitting clean into two.

"Everyone's got cracks, you know? Don't make you selfish, fixin' yours when they're about to spread. Or even tellin' me to back off if my cracks are threatenin' to pry yours apart. Or talkin' about 'em at all, if maybe it'll help you."