Tidus clasped his hands together behind her back, holding on tight...and trying to warm his fingers, because the temptation to touch her was strong. Her soft hair brushed his cheek, and he nuzzled it. Her warmth seeped into him slowly, and his brain finally caught up.

"I hoped I'd see you. Someday. I mean...if my mom went to the Farplane, I was hoping I would too, but there was so much I didn't know. I didn't know..."

Yet here he was, shivering and underdressed for the occasion, but alive and with the woman he loved. Newly aware of the huge risk he'd taken with his gamble, and suddenly feeling quite guilty about it.

It was then that the other thing she'd said caught up to him. "You were looking?"