Vivi wandered through the business district. He'd stayed in Lindblum when all the other children were taken home. It was...less uncomfortable than he'd expected. The repairs were wonderful, it was impossible to tell from looking what had happenned here. But there were still occasional accusing looks and whipers that weren't as quiet as the whiperers seemed to think they were and for all the people who had managed to put everything behind them there were still just as many people who remembered where every last scorch mark had been and weren't going to forget any time soon.

And he, he realized as he passed the place where four years ago he'd been captured and people hungry to avenge all the people who had been lost to the attack that day screamed ways to kill him until the soldiers stepped in to take him to the regent, was one of them. He took a side street and got lost a few times to avoid walking near there.

There'd always be people who didn't want him here. Just like there'd always be people who'd object to one of the weapons Alexandia had used staying there. He didn't know much politics but he knew they were messy and he didn't want to cause problems for Cid or Dagger. There were people who didn't want him there in Black Mage Village now, too. Maybe it'd be best if he went to one of the sky people cities.

But then Eiko'd be upset because she was on her own again and he didn't want that either. Thinking was hard, maybe he'd just trip and fall down.

-well okay he didn't actually PLAN to do that but he did it anyway.