Aerith stroked her chocobo along the side of its neck. It had been unsettled, but in an area where there was known to be a chocobo eater, that wasn't a surprise.

She'd felt that familiarly dark and twisted reiatsu at the same time Saix had. She remembered it well; people who had Fiend reiatsu, and strange Fiendish abilities. They unsettled her almost as much as they were unsettling the chocobos. These people were not right.

But while there were three people, only two of them felt like that.

"One of them isn't like the others were," she said, "they feel," she hesitated slightly before concluding, "normal." Strong, for a normal person, but they lacked that dark malevolence that tainted the other two.