[Auron takes a cleansing breath and then another, the snow gently falling around them. Somehow when Regis describes and explains things, they make perfect sense to him. Regis has known so much loss. And even inside this, there is a little hope.]

Yeah? I don't know a lot about his world, but I suspect that he had a very hard life and he enjoyed it here. Maybe he can come back when he's done with what he needs to do.

[The snow falling makes the air cold, but this time Auron had been more or less prepared for that, wearing his robes and clothes. He can face the truth better.]

You know why it snows when I'm feeling like this? It's because when I found out two friends of mine, two people who had become my family, they'd given up their lives for no reason. Because Spira was lied to about Sin.

When I heard that, I attacked the person who told me the awful truth. About as effectual as if I attacked one of your Astrals with my katana.

So after that happened, injured gravely, I had to crawl down Mt. Gagazet. A tall, cold and snowy place filled with fiends. I don't remember much about that crawl, but I see it in my dreams sometimes.

So it's like an echo of the worst point in my whole life. At the same time, it feels like I'm getting purified by it. Kinda strange, hunh?