Snippet #1585

Zell walked out into the crowd and was astounded. He simply walked out with his hands in his pants pockets, looking complacent but he actually felt a bit overwhelmed by it all. He hadn't really thought about it until recently but now it really hit him. This was it. It all starts today. He felt excited, to be honest. He looked around. At the front, Azrael seemed to be a bit scared at first, but from the looks of it, Carina, the girl right in front of Zell, somehow calmed him down. He grinned, then looked behind him. Riley was waving to the crowd without a care in the world and, surprisingly, so was Liam. Lucas was looking like a statue as usual, even in this bright, cheery scenery. I take back what I said... he thought. He looks even more depressing in that mask... He looked back as the Yevon began his speech before the Machina came.

As they boarded, he saw Liam walk over to Azrael and whispered something to him. Zell didn't care though. He preferred to just take in the sites for now. A few moments passed and decided to take out his card out of curiosity. Two hearts. M-maybe I lucked out of that bet... he thought, looking gloomier. He decided to take his mind off of that and looked into the crowd. A moogle floated up to him and dropped a small bag at his feet. He then noticed an older woman, a much older woman, waving around her arms and whistling at him. Looking back at his card, it then increased to three. Zell looked at the bag disgustedly as he was tempted to kick it off into the crowd.

He decided to pick it up and looked inside just to see what it was. He pocketed his card and untied the string, then opened it up. Looking inside, there was only an odd, round, metallic object inside. The object seemed mysterious and alien in design. Inside was also a piece of paper. Curious, he opened the piece of paper and it read, 'Good Luck'. Zell looked inquisitively at the golf-ball sized object for a bit. He honestly had no idea what it was, but he figured he could pawn it later for a good amount of Gil later.