Tidus wouldn't expect this hug to end any time soon, truthfully. It makes him smile though, how they must look, but he doesn't concern himself with it, either; just a silly, goofy pair. But that was them, and that was what it was.

"Pft, I wish! Bunch of that red annoying stuff, fiends everywhere - you have the stones that try zapping all your energy too? Blow up? Ugh! Good thing we found people over there so we didn't keep trying to climb up."

It would have been disastrous, for sure. The red fog - storm? whatever - didn't make them go crazy like it did the sali, but it still sucked.