"Maybe she thinks everyone's like that," Rikku said, lifting her shoulders. "I don't understand her, sometimes, I guess."

And usually felt that meant she was coming up short.

"I .... I'd like for you to come," she said. "If I go. I'm gonna ... think about it and decide, because maybe I don't. But if I do .... are you sure? That you'd want to?"

Tramping around the desert heat, in search of an old fiend that was giving everyone trouble. Really. Fun times.