"No," Marluxia agreed, "this one will take most of a day." Marluxia privately welcomed the opportunity to rest that the train ride would offer, too. In the very least, there wouldn't be any tedious monsters, they wouldn't have to carry their bags, and there would be no chocobos to deal with.

Marluxia didn't mind chocobos, exactly, but you could definitely have too much of them. Around the point where you were accustomed to the smell was where you'd had too much.

"And then Vexen," he said, trying to picture that man making the return journey with them and struggling. Recruiting him without restraining him and forcibly carrying him back with them was going to require all of Zexion and Marluxia's talents at diplomacy.