"They said he ... talked to her," Rinoa said, frowning to remember it. "If Adel wasn't awake, at least Ultimecia's presence was still there, to give him orders."

It was occurring to Rinoa that Quistis might well give her the lecture she'd been anticipating all morning, and that she might not be anticipating it after all.

"So we went to confront him, to see if we could talk him down, but he was ... too far gone."