"Riight, right. I remember the mines." The one thing he does remember, and wasn't there some kinda water in them? ...or that's just his mind getting confused for one reason or another. But pretty mines, that he does recall.

"Well, charms sound helpful. Those like talismans?" Oh, but more than the question, Tidus is now interested to share with Taiki something else. "--Did I tell you I've been trying to make them with one of the Wuxians? So we can make a bunch for protecting people! That was the idea anyway, but I'm so slow learning the writing. You need to write everything with a brush, and every part of it's gotta be perfect! You seen 'em?"

Talismans in general, he means, and if those and charms are anything like the same. They sound the same, to his ears.