[Aqua turns when she hears the crunch of sand shifting against boots, a faint smile stealing over her face when she sees Lightning approaches. She offers her a short nod, then lets her smile fall as Lightning reveals the words of the Priestess.]

How strange… the Emperor claims that she plans the very same.

[She hesitates for a moment, before she decides to elaborate:]

They said that she wants to drain the magic of our worlds in order to sustain this one, that she would risk for all our worlds to be plunged into everlasting Darkness.

[If that is true – really regardless of whom of them is planing this… Aqua can't let it happen.]