With anyone else, Eiko would have protested the head pat as treating her like a little kid. But with Dagger, she knew it was a comforting touch, and if she was being honest with herself, a nice one too. She liked it a lot, so she smiled in response, the gloomy mood dispelled. "Well, it was a lot of work," she confided. "Rydia knows a lot of eidolons I've never heard of."

After a split second, she added, "But the one at the Eidolon Wall wasn't one of hers, or even Yuna's. She's Seymour's instead. But Rydia summoned her." That wasn't too much of a surprise to the child per se. Eidolons had some say in who they answered to and if Seymour's eidolon liked Rydia, well then that was that.

"She's really sad though. I guess it's because she's stuck in that statue, but she was in chains." And from the cranky expression on Eiko's face, it wasn't difficult to extrapolate exactly how she felt about any summon being chained.