Cid scowls, but doesn't withdraw his hand. "I'm giving it to you," he says like it's the most obvious thing in the world.

It figures Emet-Selch would seem to believe there's some sort of conditional use to the Sand. "And no, you won't owe me for this." They're allies, after all. Though he remembers little of it, it's not like the situation in Horos.