"Chocolates 'n gifts, mostly. Letters 'n cards. Last year... Last year sent out a buncha letters to everyone, actin' like they were sent from one of us. Like someone forged our names, tellin' them to meet us somewhere. So we all got set up as couples when we really had nothin' to do with it. It was really weird."

He had gotten set up with Red, who thought he was there for someone else. And he played along with it, stupidly. She would never have agreed to a date with him anyway.

"No doubt it was all the moogles' doing. And they may try it again this year, or somethin' else entirely. But now ya got the head's up."