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Lulu waited until Tidus went on his customary spastic dash around the new area to try and make friends with every stranger he came across, dragging Wakka and Rikku along with him, before approaching Cid again. "I am sorry about my rudeness earlier," she said.

"About what now?" he asked distractedly, fiddling with something in the sphere oscillo-finder.

She didn't know whether he'd actually forgotten so quickly (although she knew Rikku must have gotten her bubble-headed personality from /somewhere/, so it wouldn't surprise her too much if he had), or if he was just distracted and not paying attention to what she was saying. She waited until he straightened up then tried again, "Yuna has been hoping she'd someday be able to meet you for as long as I've known her, and my curiosity got the better of my manners."

Cid whirled around to face her, any trace of inattentiveness suddenly falling from his expression, leaving what seemed to be barely contained excitement. "You say Little Yuna knows about me? An' wants ta get to know me?"

"Is that unexpected?" Lulu replied, startled by his apparent shock. "It's not as if she was orphaned as an infant, before she'd have any knowledge of her family. She was old enough to keep her memories of her parents and however much she was taught about her heritage. If I knew I had family somewhere, I would certainly pray for a chance to meet them."

"Tysh," he muttered, rubbing the back of his head. Although the rest of his expression didn't change, the corners of his eyes crinkled as though he were smiling when he started speaking to her again. "We were tryin' to find her too, after the Calm came. Figured they had her holed up in the church at Bevelle; it was years before the priests would admit that she'd disappeared the day her daddy died. Sanctimonious bastards, keepin' a little girl away from her family."

Lulu shifted uncomfortably at his obvious hatred toward The Church of Yevon, but she had to admit to herself that she could understand his feelings. Of course, what else could he have expected? It should have come as no surprise that the Church would never have allowed an Al Bhed to take the daughter of the High Summoner, however closely related to her he was.

Still, it would do her no good to point this out to him, and would almost certainly drop her straight back down to the same level as any other Yevonite in his eyes before she'd even finished speaking the words, so she settled for saying, "She will certainly be glad to hear that when we find her." Then, after a pause, she hesitantly added, "If it is any consolation, I can assure you that her life on Besaid was a happy one. Whatever you may suspect, The Church never meddled in her life to try and prevent her from having a normal childhood, although I will admit that that perhaps has more to do with their fear of Kimahri than their lack of desire to keep her cloistered somewhere safe in the temple for her whole life."

"Right," he said, eyes narrowing. "Until they made her happily go off to martyr herself."

Lulu laughed tiredly and replied, "If you believe that, than you don't know as much about the priesthood as you think. They fought harder than anyone to make her change her mind. They'd much rather have her around as a living political tool than a dead summoner, whether she defeats Sin or not. If you wish to blame anyone for her... obsession with becoming High Summoner, look to her father. She's only trying to follow in his footsteps, to bring joy to the people of Spira."

Cid looked unconvinced, but before he could make any reply Auron strode into the room heading straight for them. He frowned thoughtfully before digging a small card out of his pocket and flicked it to Lulu. "Here," he said, voice pitched low so that no one else in the room would be able to hear him. "That'll unlock the residential area of the ship for ya, so we can talk more later. You ain't allowed to let any of your comrades back there though, understand?"

She nodded silently, making the card vanish into one of her voluminous sleeves, and stepped away from him as Auron reached them. The older guardian began to speak, just as Tidus and the others burst back into the cabin. "After rescuing Yuna, then what?" he asked, glowering down at a completely unimpressed Cid. "You want to keep her safe, correct? Would you seek to stop her pilgrimage?"

Lulu couldn't help but be a little amused as Cid began insisting that he would do just that, wondering how long he'd be able to hold onto that attitude once he'd actually met Yuna. She would, of course, be overjoyed if he actually managed to convince her to quit, but she knew full well that the only way that that would ever happen was if another Summoner brought the Calm first. Even then it would only be a momentary break; when Sin reappeared Yuna would head straight back to where she'd left off and finish walking the long road to Zanarkand. Lulu did not believe that there was anything in the world that could deter her.