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Hope stood up, followed Balthier and studied the window and the door that was going to be their entrance. He had picked up many useful skills along the way since his life changed and lock picking happened to be one of them, so if the lock was different from the ones he knew - which opened onthe inside - he could still get them into the castle. Never knew when you would need it after all. Carefully he put his hand against the door and 'felt' for the magic that would be left behind should there be a ward on the other side. After a moment he removed his hand since the only traps on the other side would be normal ones. Good, he didn't like the idea of walking into - in this case jumping into - a magical trap. He also wasn't really sure why he could feel magic if he tried hard enough, perhaps it was a left over L'cie thing. Once done looking at it he nodded.

"I can do it." He was tired yes but he was able. This certainly wouldn't be the hardest thing he had ever done.

Light simply watched and let Hope come to his own decision. As much as she would like to do it for him she knew that he was able to do it even in his current condition. The plan worked for her so she had no reason to raise any objections. She was just gla dthat Baltheir was okay with not storming the front door and possibly dying right away. She would like to get home after all - dying here wasn't what she had in mind. Especialy if it was death from extreme stupidity.