Cid looks away for a long moment. "I intended to tell him. That Zodiark was killed, of who it was that murdered Him. I intended to tell him that Hydaelyn, too, is no more. But I can't bring myself to do it." Even with the star gone, it strikes him as far too cruel of an action.

Emet-Selch had spent an incomprehensible amount of time attempting to save his people. Cid will never forgive it, but he does understand it. "He's too consumed in his own grief to want for consolation from someone like me. I'd never seen him smile like he did when I first met you."

Such a statement certainly could involve more questions, so after a moment he offers, "I worked for him for a time, as Chief Magitek Engineer. As an advisor of sorts on technology."