"You've seen it, right Kyo? It appeared after the Aries thing... I used ta' keep it in the drawer, by -- " By the bed he'd shared with Rufus. Not Kyo. Reno stopped himself. Kyo barely went into that room, and after Rufus disappeared, neither of them did.

He shook his head and moved on. "Growth magic? I mean... I guess with enough use, it grew stronger? But on Gaia, our green materia was elemental magic. This one's for Thunder, just the basic spell." After enough time on Crystallis, he was sure all the Heroes knew the basic spells the Black Mages could cast. "I didn't really get to use it."

At her mention of going after something, he looked over his shoulder. "Just be careful." He shouldn't have worried -- about K'pandalu, at least. Behind the flasks, she'll find fifty Amat, easily exchanged into an equal amount of Gil!

Johnny, on the other hand... talk about bad luck. Even with one finger, he happened to pull right on the trigger of a string of small firecrackers. They popped and cracked, spitting light and sparks and in general provided a large distraction from the heavy shotput ball dropping from the top cabinet shelf right onto Johnny's foot.

"Shit!" Reno jumped at the noise.