"He didn't ... see it coming," Rikku admitted, wriggling closer. It was hard to talk about this. Easier when she could feel him, warm and alive, next to her. "I just ... I said, get them back, and he said he couldn't, and ... and I punched him. Then we were all trying to call you, and he took my phone 'cause I couldn't. And Romeo and Dojima and that Elena-girl, they went to help the civilians, and we just ... waited."

Tseng dialing, Rufus silent, and Rikku doing the closest thing in her life to praying that she had ever done.