"Crazy?" Balthier questioned, curious. What had his conversation with Cid looked like to his companions, he wondered? He supposed that for those who were unaware of the context, he might have seemed a little needlessly irate, but certainly not insane. He would leave that to the higher branches of his family tree. "If you knew the full scope of the argument, I suppose it would make more sense, but what you saw was the result of a madman's thirst for power reaching its height." He paused. "Did you not see--" he began, but cut himself off as he fully realized that their surroundings had again shifted.

Rubble as far as the eye could see, fashioned into something larger than any town it might have as its components. "What is this place?"