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[fatedcircle]

He's no stranger to taking orders, fortunately. And even if he weren't, neither is he so headstrong that he wouldn't be able to realize that now is no time to be arguing.

With Lightning taking the Behemoth head-on, and Vanille and Fang working away at the status effects, Squall drops easily into something closest to a Ravager role. It's not one that he commonly takes, or at least not one that he would have commonly taking back home, but the spells still come fast and easy, as if he doesn't even need to think about them, and with them already having all the stats on the thing it is easy enough to pick the right ones.

(An advantage over his previous efforts, which have mostly been trial and effort until he manages to find the element that works the best.)

Once the others swap up, on the other hand, he does, too. He might be good enough with spells, but he's always done best with he gunblade and for all that the way that he's channeling the magic through his blade might not be the standard sort of Firestrike and Sparkstrike, it does have a roughly similar effect and he even manages to work his way into the rhythm Fang and Lightning have set up without any trouble whatsoever.

And with any luck, the four of them should be able to manage to down the Behemoth before it gets around to its transformation.

[ruinga]

They're very lucky to be strong enough by now to get the Behemoth King down before it can even think about its transformation. Once that has been dispatched, Lightning turns to face the new threat. The Adamanchelid is far enough away that they can escape if they're careful. Luckily the things aren't fast, though the larger they are the slower they are.

"This way," she snaps, worry forming into irritation at everything around her as she turns to run off. Fang and Vanille seem happy enough to follow her -- though she wouldn't be surprised if Fang drops back to keep an eye on their new guest -- and soon the whole group is making their way to the meeting point down by the Mah'habara Subterra entrance. That's where Snow and Sazh should be with Hope.

Once they're clear of the giant tortoise baby, Lightning drops back a little, letting Fang take point while she jogs along beside the newcomer. "Where did you come from?" she asks bluntly. "We thought we were the only humans on Pulse."

[fatedcircle]

It's not the first time Squall has beaten a hasty retreat from an enemy that would have proven to be difficult. Nor does he really comment about Lightning's apparent irritation. He might not be really good at empathy even on a good day, but he's been in similar enough places to where she is that he can at least mostly recognize what it looks like from the outside. And in either case, it's not like commenting on it is really going to get him very far either, although he does off a polite nod to Fang if and when she does drop back to keep an eye on him.

(He might not really know who any of these people are, but they seem to know more about where this is than he does, and he figures the least he can do is be relatively polite.)

Unfortunately, the question that Lightning asks isn't exactly one that he can easily answer. That there has to have been somewhere is something he doesn't doubt. But the details are frustratingly vague even now, and he's pretty sure that's going to make this conversation a whole lot more frustrating for everyone involved.

"I'm not sure," he answers, with a shrug. "I know I was somewhere else, before turning up here, but it's not there when I try to remember where."

He doesn't even have so much as a name to go on, just a feeling that this is somehow not where he should be.

[ruinga]

Fang is close enough to hear them and she, Vanille, and Lightning trade looks at the mention of lost memories. "Sounds familiar," Lightning mutters. "When we get to the meeting place, I want to see your brand."

If it looks like normal or like Fang's, that will still tell them a lot. Right now, though, they can't stop. If it isn't a Behemoth King, it's an Adamantoise and right now, a much larger one has decided to turn towards them.

"Tch," Lightning huffs.

Fang seems to agree, turning them so they won't get anywhere near the giant beast's path. They end up close enough to feel the ground quake with each of its steps, but not close enough to be in any immediate danger. They won't get stepped on at least and can still easily outrun the thing.

[fatedcircle]

"Brand?"

It's a simple question, but the lack of comprehension in his voice is very clearly genuine, which leaves the question to be either worrying or telling, depending on how the rest of the group should choose to take it. On the other hand, if his memory really is as badly off as he's implied its possible that he just hasn't known to expect the possibility of ending up l'cie. That or he just straight up hasn't had cause to notice his brand, which is entirely given how much of him is covered by some kind of clothing or another.

But apart from that, he doesn't say much, even when they very nearly get cornered by an Adamantoise, for all that their path comes a lot closer to it then he's wanted to get previously. But he figures that Lightning probably knows what she's doing, and as long as the Adamantoise decides that they aren't particular interesting, he figures he can deal with whatever else happens to come up.

Even if he's not entirely sure he likes the idea of brands.

[ruinga]

Neither Lightning nor Vanille can show him their brands very easily, but as Fang falls back to show off her frozen brand, Lightning manages to pull the zipper partially down on her top. Not far enough to expose anything, but far enough that the very top of her brand and part of the eye can be seen.

"You're using magic like us, you're a l'Cie and you've got a brand," Fang tells him, pointing at hers. "Simple as that."

"Yours probably looks more like mine," Lightning adds on, "and there's no telling where you've been branded, but it's there. The mark of the l'Cie." It's something of a blessing and a curse as far as Lightning is concerned. Not having magic and the power they have as l'Cie means they wouldn't be able to fight their Focus, but not having a Focus to fight would be nice, too. "Do you remember your Focus? The dream you had after the fal'Cie branded you."

[fatedcircle]

"I wasn't aware I was supposed to keep track of my dreams." It's offered in what's pretty much the driest of deadpans, for all that it does neatly imply that either his Focus is vague enough that he can't figure out what it had been meant to be, or that this too is something that has vanished into the void that is his memory. But just at the moment he isn't too concerned with it.

(He may be so later, when he gets a more proper explanation, but that's something for later. Right now, he's mostly figuring it's not too important.)

Instead, he nods at both the brands and the explanation, even though a brief flicker of confusion stirs at the back of his mind. He knows this isn't the first time he's used magic, not by anything even remotely like a long shot, and he's pretty sure he'd been using magic even before he'd ended on Pulse. So either this isn't the only place that these fal'Cie can be found or there's something else going on here. But he very literally doesn't have the answers and he knows better than to try and pull something out his memory when there's so clearly nothing there. Perhaps time will have the answers, and if not, so be it.

[ruinga]

"You are when it comes from the fal'Cie," Lightning huffs. If this guy really doesn't know his Focus, he's gonna go cie'th, whether he likes it or not. They've got a ticking time bomb and that's not good.

"Fal'Cie brand humans as l'Cie and give them a Focus," she continues, opting for revisiting an explanation that literally everyone should know by now. Better to annoy him with that than to let even the chance that he might actually have amnesia like Fang slip by. "It's a vision, annoyingly vague. If you complete it before your brand turns, whatever it is, you turn to crystal. If you don't, you go cie'th and there's no coming back from that."

Vanille or Snow should probably be giving this explanation; Lightning really doesn't have it in her to be gentle about it.