[Oh dear. Cecil should probably clarify a few things immediately.]

Kain's fine! Well, he's fine these days, at the time there were... complications.

[Understatement of the decade, right there.]

Had I not suddenly become responsible for a young girl's well-being, I might have attempted to search through the rubble, monsters and my own safety be damned. But with Rydia there, that was not an option.