Ramza dug his feet down unto the sand until they were sufficiently covered. What would his lord father, gods rest his soul, think if he knew his son was out, barefooted in polite company?

"It seems too great a coincident that the Crystal would nearly explode just as that ritual began, and then quiet when it stopped. There must have been some outside force acting upon it." Ramza looked out across the ocean, in the direction of Aqures Ixen. "If our enemy had a method to detonate that Crystal, the whole city lies in grave peril. We hope to assuage that threat."