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Don't remind me about the gem!

[ Does Inigo really believe that gem is still there? Or is he just being dramatic?

Who knows. It's hard to tell with how convinced he sounded just a moment ago, mid-chew of his bite of steak before swallowing it. Then he picks up his fork so he can take that offered steak into his lunchbox. There's a moment where he gives it a half-wary stare before he starts cutting into it for himself. ]

But.. still, I've eaten much stranger things.. but that's before I knew about stuff like food safety! [ Roland, in trying to teach the boy, has apparently brought the fear of god even further into his life. ] I didn't know how dangerous it could be. If I have to go out, I at least want it to be some cool battlefield death, not because I decided to eat floor steak.

[ Tidus Will Never Let Go Of Stomach Gem.

But alright, he will for now, the two of them finally eating their dinner semi-normally (as normal as it comes to this pair). Tidus cuts into his own steak ~~now tht he's ha extra bites out of Inigo's~~, listening to his friend's grumbling with a silly smile on his face. ]

Nothing's going to happen to you 'cause it was on the floor for a second. [ ...okay, closer to a few minutes, BUT. ] If you left it on the ground for a week? Sure, but it'd looked gross and dried out by then, there's no way you'd eat it!

[ Right?? Right??? Right Tidus sticks some meat in his mouth, saying while he chews- ]

Goingh out ihn a fighhth suhcks tooh. Howh about dying in yorh sleep?

[ Did he want to go out that way ever? ... not that he ever thought about it. ]

[ Funny thing you'd say that, Tidus..

But apparently there's no time to discuss medieval eating habits. No, instead there's time discuss medieval dying habits, because Inigo shakes his head at the suggestion. ]

No way, that's so boring. [ It's weird. For as much as Inigo has always hated fighting, there's still allure in the idea of dying that way, rather than any other.

At least it would feel like he did something. Like he meant something. Maybe that's it. ]

And it feels so.. selfish? If you die in battle, you at least die knowing that you tried to help someone out.

[ It's a heavy topic, sure, but Inigo speaks about it rather casually regardless. Maybe it's because they're doing it over dinner, right after having an extremely dumb conversation. ]

[ It's a bit morbid, but Tidus looks up with a difficult face, thinking about all the times he's been fighting. ]

Sure, I guess if you were fighting for something at the time, [ he could see Inigo's reasoning in that, ] but what if you got jumped by a fiend or monster while you were trying to get somewhere? [ And he even waves up a hand and bring it down, to give the scene more picture. ]

That'd suck! I got taken out by some dumb fiend 'cause I was trying to get to the next town? No way! [ Ugh! ]

I wanna kick whoever's ass I'm fighting!

[ ...which goes for any fight too, but you know what, isn't that the true goal? Not to die?? ]

Well, it's not like any random fiend is just going to take you down.

[ That's even easier to say with a nonchalant smile on his face. Inigo has seen Tidus fight so many times now that he can say it confidently. It'd take something more powerful than that to do something to Tidus, let alone actually kill him. ]

I know you! You're tough!

So you don't have to worry about that in the first place, right? [ He'd make a joke about them being heroes, but.. considering that's exactly what the train seems to think of it, it has a bit of a bitter aftertaste. Bitter enough that he leaves it at this, shoving another bite of steak into his mouth. ]

I guess so. [ Hrmmmm! He still doesn't like the whole 'dying in battle' idea anyway due to the aforementioned 'I wanna kick my opponent's ass' attitude, but it's bit of a dumb conversation to begin with, so Tidus doesn't want to think too deeply about it.

Therefore, with a far more determined grin: ] Then it sounds like you and me are gonna be living a long time! No dying for us! We can get a nice place by the sea and go swimming everydaaay...

[ Uh oh, sounds like Tidus is going into fantasy land, no longer attempting to slice his steak and just keeping his stabbed into fork and taking bites that way, chewing at some as he sinks back into the couch.

mmm, sea fantasies and fooood. ]

That's the life!

[ ... We?

We?

We?!

It takes every single ounce of willpower Inigo has in him to ensure he doesn't choke on his steak at that idea. He's just reading into it! N-No way Tidus would want to lead a quiet life by the sea with him, right.. N-Not like that sounds like a dream life to Inigo.. or anything...

By Naga, Inigo, stop being so thirsty! Get your head on straight! Say something totally normal in response to that. You can do it. ]

Y-Yeah, that'd be nice, huh? [ Nailed it. So smooth. ] It's almost as if the train gave us an island vacation because it knew we wouldn't see water for a long time afterwards.

It has been that long! [ That long since they got to be around water! Since Gyueran, then Jema'wherever... why, if it's been that long-! ]

We should ask for a new vacation! That day picnic was nothing. Why'd it let us just stay there for a day anyway? We did a big and risky mission last time - we due for another vacation!

[ Is there any reasoning with the train? Who knows, but what other chance are they going to get to swim? There was no telling with the train voting for a pool, and the kids really want that art car... ]

[ Of course it hasn't been as long to Inigo, considering he's never been around much water for most of his life.

But he knows it's different for Tidus - which is exactly why he worded it that way. ]

You know it'll just pick some vacation spot by itself though, with the weirdest reasons. [ Since the train seems to be so bad at actually thinking of what normal people would enjoy. ] Or it comes with a downside, like everything that happened back on the island.

[ NOT GOING TO EVEN MENTION IT. Please, they're having a fun time eating floor steak, that's no time to think about weird memory sharing with people who are now already long gone from the train. ]

Suuuuure. [ Suuuuure, Tidus remembers how everyone had their closest personal memories shared with strangers and were forced to speak about them before being released from a shared delusion.

...

... ]

.......was it that bad when you think about it though? It was so long ago! We got to pick berries for Taiki and hang out in a hot spring!

[ WHO EVEN REMEMBERS INVOLUNTARILY MEMORY SHARES THESE DAYS. ]

It was that bad!

[ INIGO REMEMBERS. Apparently. Because even though he doesn't sound genuinely upset as he replies with that - if not just because he's trying to keep things from getting too miserable here - he defintiely sounds sulky.

The whole memories thing was just such a crappy experience that it overshadows all of the actual fun things he got to do on the island. Especially since it was also the first time he saw Roland looking really miserable. ]

If that's the price for being able to swim or go to the hot springs or have a fun time, I don't want it.

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