Sifen was dragged away from the frail weirdly half demon girl. He somehow never noticed her horn and weird arm. "Hey man, we both got weird arms man, you need to cool it with the-" he was cut off by the girl swooping on her chair into the air. Guess it was fixed and now could fly. Neat. He didn't even notice that someone was carrying it.  He also didn't notice that almost half an hour had passed since that moment and he was being dragged through the jungle. It seemed like seconds had passed since he said that to Nai but he was wrong.

He was starting to come down halfway through the trek and started noticing things going on. Mostly that everyone was in love in the group aside from him, Maximus and Braska. Even Alex seemed to look at Urick every now and then so it seemed she too was more capable of love than these three. Maybe Braska loved himself and maybe Maximus was one of those monks that can't have sex. They both had reasons but Sifen was just... he didn't know. He felt like he liked some girls but never knew what love was really supposed to be since he missed the whole teenager with raging hormones surrounded by other gender teenagers phase. He knew what it was like to love a family member but heard that it's gross when people love them the same way they do a girlfriend or wife. Which was weird since wives are your family, yet you can love them like a girlfriend but not a mother like one. It was complicated and Sifen never bothered with it much. 

Another half hour passed and seemed like 10 minutes this time. He was sober after the light jog he did almost the whole way there. It wasn't necessary but he kept trying to match pace with Alex as she held his hand, hopping to get his strides as long as hers the majority of the way. All of his actions seemed so... strange. Even for him they weren't normal and he was a fairly abstract guy. He felt the grip on his arm loosen and he was free. He was so used to being dragged he just stopped walking as he was released. He turned to see the end of a strange angry look from Nai and a scene again full of a weird amount of romance behind him. "I'm too poor to lose this race. So uh, I'll just walk look at Nai's chair for a bit, feel free to carry her up though, I just need the chair. Simple machina checkup, weird how it's still floating while it's broken." He walked over and put his ear up against it listening for the whir of a hovering engine but heard nothing. It was weird, all AL Bhed tech had a similar whir to it. Even the best stuff still had some noise when you put your ear to it. "Hmmm..." He said with a deepened tone 

Sifen pulled his head away and tried to grab a small little device to light things up like a torch but found that his left arm was in fact nonexistent. He blushed and pushed away from the chair and headed to the stairs with his missing arm in a position that would have tucked it behind his back, had he had anything past an elbow. His face was red and continued back until he hit the stairs with his heel and he quickly turned around and raced after Alex who had already arrived at the top. He kept his stub tucked tight against his body. He felt so useless and embarrassed at that moment. A mechanic with one arm was no better than a gunman with one arm. He didn't even have a pistol or a one handed weapon unless he modified his rifle, but he couldn't make it back into a rifle if he shortened it and weakened it that much. He got to the top and looked to the temple doors, Alex was in his peripheral vision but he couldn't look her in the face. He smiled though. He didn't need an arm to climb those stares. He didn't need an arm to get out of those ropes earlier either. Maybe this wasn't so bad. But maybe it was. Time would certainly tell. He was second up the stairs as well, so he definitely didn't need an arm to pay for dinner. He chuckled a little. He wasn't sad about this whole mess, just embarrassed.