Rikku closed her eyes. "She .............. there were attacks. On the excavations. She said she was sorry to a-ask. She wasn't there ..... sh-she wasn't there when it ........... they took her out, first. She didn't see ........"

She had to have known it was bad. There had been Al Bhed guarding the Sanctum. Isaaru said that they had protected the Summoners with their lives. There had been fire and death, down there, even if that was well before all of Home had crumbled.

She felt so tired.

"I can't do it," she said. "I have to. But I can't."