The Gapra Whitewood/Story

BGN
Lightning
 * We press on. I'll take point. You watch our backs.

Hope
 * Actually... Why don't you let me take point?

Lightning
 * Can you handle it?

Hope
 * It's not a question of can or can't.

Lightning
 * Now you're learning. Keep your eyes front. I'll watch the rear.

Lasswell
 * That woman truly knows how to rally her comrades.


 * That boy taking point should be able to rest easy knowing she's watching their backs.

Fina
 * Alright then, how about I take point today?

Lasswell
 * You? But my weapon is more suited for the frontlines...

Fina
 * Oh, Lasswell! You're such a wet blanket!

INT
Lightning
 * You scared?

Hope
 * Not really. I'm ready to fight if I have to.

Lightning
 * To keep you safe. I'll want it back.

Hope
 * I'm glad I followed you. By myself, I would've had no chance.

Fina
 * That boy really was scared, wasn't he?

Lid
 * Well, if you act tough, you actually start to feel tough.


 * My brother and I used to say things like, I'm the next Cid! Then I'd get all fired up, and feel like I really was Cid.

Fina
 * I suppose we all have to start somewhere.


 * So how about this? I'm going to be the most babe-ilicious beauty in all of Lapis AND Paladia!

Lid
 * Fina, you're... a genius! Why didn't I think of that!?

ADV
Hope
 * They don't seem like they're even looking for us. I mean, we're l'Cie and we're on the loose.

Lightning
 * PSICOM's keeping it all under wraps.


 * They don't want their failure publicized. Better to lose us than lose their pride.

Hope
 * So the other soldiers don't know about us. Right?

Lightning
 * Right. They don't know anything about any fugitives.

Lid
 * Uh... What were they talking about?

Lasswell
 * We know nothing about this world, so it's hard to say. But it seems as though they're being chased.

Lid
 * If Nichol or Sakura were here with us, they'd figure it out right away!


 * Like, Judging from the angle of the flight path and the weather patterns... or Those young whippersnappers were saying... or something like that!

Lasswell
 * That... was nothing like either of them.

Lid
 * I hope they're doing okay...

Lasswell
 * I'm sure they are. They are the brains of our motley crew, after all.

PRO
Lightning
 * Think of it like a strategy.


 * Focus on your ultimate goal and shut out everything else.


 * Still your mind. Move on instinct.


 * Let doubt take over, and despair will cripple you.

Lasswell ...

Jake
 * What's wrong, Lasswell? Taken in by her words and her beauty?

Lasswell
 * I'm sure that... both Rain and Master are in the middle of their own strategies.

Jake
 * Yeah, that may be.


 * And our strategy is to give that big fella over there a good beatdown, right?

Lasswell ...

ELT
Hope
 * Strategy. Good. I'll take anything to help me get through this.


 * I'll call it 'Operation Nora.'

Lightning
 * NORA?

Hope
 * My mother's name.

Lightning
 * Your revenge?

Lasswell
 * It seems this is as far as we're able to see.


 * We have no way of knowing how his strategy unfolds...


 * But we have our own strategy that we have to follow through with.