"I'm Rikku, I'm sixteen and I took this class because I like science-y stuff like chemistry, both 'cause you can use it to blow stuff up and because I like knowing how all the little bits go together and what makes what. And because I'm kinda an anarchist. I took down a government once, I mean, it was all crap about religion and not questioning authority and not thinking for yourself and the heck with that."

She had to consider the last one. "You mean, like, who'd be good to fight, or -- like, could I wish someone back from the dead just so I could beat the crap out of them again?"