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If you see a bear. That's mine.

"Come back here!"

Yuna was running down the hall after a brown ball of fuzz running in front of her. She had changed back into her gunner outfit after the mishap. It was much easier to chase after the young bear in short shorts than it was in a floor length dress. Her feet lightly kissed the ground as she flew forward her eyes locked on the bounding bear.

She hoped that someone would stop him. He wasn't a bad little bear and he usually listened to her but this time he had gotten a little to excited. She could hear his claws click on the hard floor and she really hopes whomever he runs into likes heavy fuzzy creatures licking their faces.

"Daigoro!" Calling it's name did nothing and Yuna's heart sank as her bear turned into the lounge.

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Yuna smiled nervously moving so that she could see the bears face. It was grunting as her palms cupped its cheeks.

"Um.. yes. Sorry if he caused you any trouble. I summoned him and hadn't expected.." She looked up at Todd and smile. "Sorry. Guide." She was okay with replacing his dinner.

"Thank you for stopping him."

Having let go of the animal he sat back in a crouch, breathing a sigh before standing up. "This will not be a regular occurrence, I trust." Moving to turn the table back right side up, it was then that he discovered that a seam at the shoulder of his coat had torn during the scuffle. This just kept on getting better and better. Though, admittedly, the coat was getting old and he had been considering replacing it.

Daigoro began to lick Yuna's hand now that he was caught it didn't seem that he was bent on more destruction. "No, it won't." For a moment she felt like she was being scolded by Kimahri with the way he spoke.

Her gaze flicked over to his torn coat and then to the table. "It's ripped." The bear was now nuzzling Yuna's legs as she stood. "I can fix that if you want." It would be a small I'm sorry considering the trouble she has caused.

He was about to decline, but, a coat was a coat, and he didn't know if he might find a suitable one on board. "That would be appreciated, thank you," he said, accepting her offer as he bent down to pick up and set the chairs straight, eying the bear. Curious creature.

Yuna moved to help him lift the chairs and put things back in order. The whole time there was an eager bear nuzzling against her legs. She was sure he was trying to say sorry for causing a mess. After they had set everything up the bear padded over towards Guide and then nuzzled against his leg as well.

Yuna had to restrain the giggle that rose in her chest. She shifted through her bag and then pulled a thin needle from its side. Most of her things she kept on her and she was used to having to fix her own clothing. "Here, let me see your jacket. If you keep wearing it it'll only rip wider."

There was only the slightest moment of hesitation before the old Wraith undid the fastenings that held his coat closed. Underneath it he worse a simple black shirt of some smooth and silky fabric, and though the coat did its part in making his appear larger, he was by no means slight of build without it.

He handed it over before sitting down. It was a heavy thing, leather thick and sturdy, almost as much armor as it was a piece of clothing. It had also seen much use, worn scuffed up in places.

Sitting down and leaning forward, he studied the strange bear. Testingly, he reached out a hand to pet its fluffy head.

Her eyes quickly glanced over his torso, curiously seeing what was beneath his coat. She wasn't surprised to see his build considering what he had told her.

Yuna took the coat noting the heft. She'd have to make sure she did a good job for it to hold together properly. This was one of those moments were she was glad that her world lacked certain technologies because it gave her a chance to learn skills like sewing. She took a seat at the table placing the jacket in her lap and then assessing the damage with an index finger. It wasn't so bad. She'd have to tact the two points of the rip before sewing it together so it doesn't widen.

She glanced up nothing how his hand gently pet the little bear. There was a soft rumbling noise coming from the fuzzy creature which could only be described as purring. His teeth and claws were sharp but he was a good pet. At least Yuna thought she had been training him well.

"Are you used to animals?"

"Not as such," he replied, scratching his clawed fingers gently behind the creature's ears when he noticed that the petting had been accepted. "It is very rare for my kind to keep pets, and personally I have never had neither time nor inclination to." He'd been far too busy for such frivolities.

"Still, I have encountered a few in my days."

"Oh?" Yuna's eyes glanced up from her work with a curious smile. She wondered what sort of pets Guide would have met. "Daigoro here is trained for combat before anything else. I'm sure he wouldn't even sit if I asked but he's a good companion to fight with." Which also explains why his teeth and claws are dangerously sharp.

"He's able to use magic just like I am though it's more primal." Yuna always thought it was interesting how animals connected to the planet.

Her hand was steady and with each word she threaded her needle through the thick material. It would take her a little while to finish it.

Some day, preferably soon, he would have to ask her to explain and demonstrate this magic of hers. He was curious, and always hungry for knowledge.

The bear snuffled at his hand, and Guide gave out a low, rumbling sound that wasn't at all unlike the bear's own previous purring noise. "Mostly I have met beasts of burden on more primitive planets," he went on to elaborate in response to her questioning tone, "or animals used for hunting or tracking. Always animals kept for their use rather than for company."

"This guys like that too. He was the companion to a great warrior from over a thousand years from my time. I fought along side this warrior and even after he left this little cub didn't." She looked down fondly at the furry beast. He looked scary but Yuna had known him long before she summoned him with her trainer sphere. She was lucky that he had come back to her then.

"I realize that might not make sense."

Guide's lips twisted into a crooked grin, and and he gave a low chuckle. "Remarkable, how many things that do not make sense, that I have still come to accept since coming here." He'd once heard Sheppard use a rather apt expression: Situation Normal, All Fucked Up. It applied quite well, Guide thought.

"I shall simply believe your word."

Yuna laughed softly clicking her tongue to call the little bear back to her side. "That's true. I'm thinking I should send him home." Though she had spent some effort to summon him here. It was a little strange from so far away.

"I can try to explain it if you want. I don't mind talking about it. Magic's part of me and my world."

When the bear meandered away from him, Guide sat back up straight, leaning back in his chair.

"Please do. I will admit I have been curious." He didn't think it would be anything that could come to use to him, personally. But knowledge was always knowledge.

Yuna laughed at that. It was the same curiosity that she found she had in most things. Not useful but learning was always fun. The bear placed a claw on Yuna's knee and she ignored the feeling of his claws scratching her leg. Her hand cupped under the bears chin and she scratched at it absently as she spoke.

"Well to start, magic is a part of my world. It's connected to the people and plants and fiends that live there. Everything is connected in a cycle. It's called the cycle of death." Her eyes flicked up from the bear and she was smiling. "Magic is just energy. Everyone has it and everyone can use it but you have to know it's there. I have tools that help me access it and boost up it's effects so that it doesn't wear me down so quickly but it comes from me. For lack of a better way to explain it, it comes from my soul."

Guide listened attentively, in a way you could almost see the wheels turning in his head as he wrapped his brain around the idea. "Ultimately, everything is energy." Wraith had their own unique knowledge of that, in ways he hadn't told her about, and had no plans to. The fewer on board that knew about the nature of his kind the better.

"Your people must have a rather unique way of harnessing that energy." Ever the scientist, he had an urge to see if it could be measured in some way.

"That's right." Yuna smiled. She didn't mind telling him about herself even if she learned nothing from him in return. They were his secrets to tell and she wasn't going to ask. Everyone had the right to their secrets.

"In that sense people from Spira don't have a psychical form either. At least not in the same way as others. I think that is what gives us a greater connection with the planet and it's life force." Her mismatched gaze met his with a smile. "You see, when I die, my body will vanish. I will fade into pyrflies which is what we call the souls of dead."

She states things like facts of her world and didn't seem particularly bothered by these facts. "As for how we harness it. Everyone has there own way really. I've learned a lot of different ways but I don't know them all."

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