[He huffs.] Sounds 'bout right. Always gotta bottle things up too long.
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I wronged him too, y'know. Ten years ago. That's why I told myself I'd make sure he stays free of Spira's bullshit when I got here. But I'm the one dredging all that up.
It is easy to bottle up when nobody will speak to you, you realize. When you think you're not allowed to talk about what you feel because nobody else does, either. Did you ask him what he wants? If he wants you to deal with any of it on your own, to isolate him?
Would it be easier for him if those things would never touch him? Possibly, though Spira is no less a part of him than it is of you. Would he choose to be free of it, if it means you have to hide from him?
I can't answer for him, Jecht. But neither can you. Auron may have been the youngest of you when you traveled together, but he has carried enough on his shoulders, for more than long enough, that he can, these days, decide for himself what burdens he wishes to take and what ones he would not.
... I apologize. This was not meant to be any sort of a lecture. Merely food for thought.
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Which one? Tidus or Auron?
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I'm askin' bout Auron.
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He does understand that there are situations which can't be fixed all at once.
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I wronged him too, y'know. Ten years ago. That's why I told myself I'd make sure he stays free of Spira's bullshit when I got here. But I'm the one dredging all that up.
[Between the Final Aeon and now this.]
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Would it be easier for him if those things would never touch him? Possibly, though Spira is no less a part of him than it is of you. Would he choose to be free of it, if it means you have to hide from him?
I can't answer for him, Jecht. But neither can you. Auron may have been the youngest of you when you traveled together, but he has carried enough on his shoulders, for more than long enough, that he can, these days, decide for himself what burdens he wishes to take and what ones he would not.
... I apologize. This was not meant to be any sort of a lecture. Merely food for thought.
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... I get it.
[He sighs.]
I know what I have to. Just... I'm glad he has you. Don't think I ever said as much. You've done a lot for him. And me.