"Sounds like we need a break so you can die on the ground, then" Caius joked back at her when Yuffie exclaimed that she was dying. She continued her "tough" act, of course, but Caius just rolled his eyes and started whispering to Vordun around the time that Yuffie would finally relent that she wanted to take a break. That was fine with him, of course, seeing as he had already been telling Vordun to land them gently.

Of course, Yuffie still had to try and pretend it was for Vordun's good. Caius turned to stare at her with half-lidded eyes. "I know when he's tired" Caius pointed out. This flight was nothing for Vordun, though even Caius got a bit jet-lagged after enough distance. The dragon was far more capable of handling long flights than he was, so he doubted that Vordun was even slightly tired at this point. Still, if Yuffie needed to go down, then they needed to land.

Soon enough, Vordun would land on a grassy plain, with a chocobo farm noticable in the distance. Caius smiled slightly at the sight of it as he dismounted, before looking further into the distance and seeing the sight of Provo's capital city just a little ways away. It wouldn't be too much longer before Vordun would be able to get there once they were back up in the air.

Caius would then reach over and try to assist Yuffie off the dragon. Considering she was sick, it was for the best that she got a little help.

Caius scratched behind Vordun's ears as Yuffie bemoaned their method of travel, and how much she missed the ground. Caius took some time to stretch his arms and legs, and get Vordun a few dragon treatos -- or the closest thing he could get to that -- before Yuffie suddenly pointed out the chocobo farm in the distance. And that they could get chocobos there. "Alright. I guess we can. We could also walk, it's not that far" Caius brought up, but he figured that was a losing battle with this one. "And considering you're current queasy, are you absolutely sure that you want to be rocking up and about aboard a chocobo?" he then asked, realizing that a sick Yuffie probably wasn't going to do much better on a chocobo.

Regardless, he soon began walking towards the chocobo farm. Whether they were to go the way of the farm itself, or skip it and keep headed towards the city, well that was up to Yuffie. Vordun had deigned to pad alongside them and rest his wings. While Vordun could have kept going, and the dragon seemed a bit confused at the fact that they weren't taking the rest of the way by air, Vordun didn't have any reason to complain when they had more opportunity to rest.

Well, at least Yuffie had the sense not to try and test her stomach further. Though only after having to stop to heave, to which Caius sighed and stopped Vordun so that Yuffie could take her time and... Finish with whatever contents were still in her stomach. Caius held out a hand and a preserved piece of fish landed in it. Vordun immediately began jumping up and down excitedly at the sight of it, likely not helping poor Yuffie's situation with the small tremors that this would cause. Caius quickly shoved the fish towards Vordun's mouth to spare Yuffie further issue. By the time she returned, Vordun had long gobbled the fish whole.

Then came the excuses as to why they should walk. Caius' non-fishy hand was brought to his face with a quiet groan as Yuffie began her barrage of reasons as to how walking was definitely better in a hundred ways that did not in fact include her being queasy. Though one of them caught his attention.

"I know where Cloud is" Caius brought up at that. "He's been resting in the care of one of the Dragonblades. He got roughed up pretty bad after charging Sephiroth. As far as I know, he's still under Yuna's care. She's a healer, strong too. She's capable of the art of summoning without the need for artifacts or anything else, just her natural magic. She'll get Cloud patched up, but he'll likely be there for a bit."

Yuffie was back to her old self for long, though quickly remembered she didn't know where to go. Caius shrugged at that as he took the lead. "Once we get to Yuna's clinic, I'll leave you there to get re-acquainted with our mutual friend. I'm going to gather some intel while you do that" Caius spoke up then. And get a drink while he was at it. He really did need one.

"I did. I said he's in Provo" Caius spoke calmly when Yuffie went at him for "not telling her" that he knew where Cloud was. "The city of Provo, in particular. And you were there when I brought up earlier to Tomoe about him being with Yuna in Provo" he added. Not particularly shaming her for not listening, but at least pointing out that he had been upfront on their mutual friend's whereabouts from the beginning. Yuffie then began to go off about how Cloud had missed about a third of their journey, from being sick and resting up. Caius blinked a few times, unsure of what that had to do with Cloud being injured by Sephiroth. And it was hard to say if her words were true or just another Yuffie-ism. He had grown to start knowing when to tell one between the other, but the process of designating such still was going to take some time.

"Tifa's in Sonora, last I saw her" Caius blurted out, before seeming to realize that just saying such on its own could be problematic. "Right, I first met Cloud in Sonora. A giant robot... House-thing -- was set loose upon the city. I wound up running into Cloud while moving to defend against it. I then found myself in a bar that a woman named Tifa, who seems to know Cloud, is running in the city while I was myself recovering" came his attempt to elaborate. Hopefully that would clear up that little plot point a bit better. Though he did smile when Yuffie gushed over Yuna, and brought up the possibility of being taught.

"I think it's a natural talent, by what little she has told me of her summoners' culture. Some are just capable of doing it, and it is those that become summoners. You can ask her when we get there" Caius spoke then. He did not know what a Neo Bahamut or Zero Bahamut were, however, which puzzled him. Bahamut was one of the Astrals in his world, the King of Astrals in particular. He was the god of their world, and yet just as Yuna wielded Shiva like a mere tool, Yuffie treated Bahamut like it was just as such, and not even the strongest Bahamut for that matter.

These other worlds were so strange sometimes. It was hard to remember that they were indeed different worlds, with their own versions of the gods. If they were even gods at all in those worlds. Vordun meanwhile didn't seem fussed when Yuffie claimed she wanted a god dragon. In fact the dragon was more preoccupied with an apple that Caius had materialized for a snack. He hadn't eaten since before Yuffie had knocked down the door, after all. He'd figured he could just eat on the way. But of course Vordun was a glutton. Caius had just been listening to Yuffie's request to bring her along if need be, nodding along before he was nearly knocked over by Vordun. Caius scoffed with a small laugh and held out the apple, a cutting knife appearing in his other hand. "We'll share" Caius offered to the dragon, but the moment that he held out the apple, it was gone. Vordun had scarfed the entire thing before Caius could even do anything, and the mercenary stared at the dragon with narrowed eyes.

"So much for sharing" Caius complained bitterly as the knife disappeared. He looked back to Yuffie as he wiped his hands free of slobber on his pants, only to watch her topple right forwards, barely catch herself after loudly staggering around, and then claim she did so on purpose. Caius couldn't help a sigh at that. "You know, making mistakes is part of how you learn" Caius advised her at that. "You make a mistake. You learn from it. You're less likely to make that mistake again. It is all part of growth" he brought up as he summoned his sword. "You criticized my gunblade's design before, and the potential flaws. How many failed modifications do you think I went through before I got to this point? The answer is -- a lot. I have modified, reforged, taken apart and modified this sword's blade again, and again, and again. This sword has gone through many new blades until I could make modifications that wouldn't dull the point, or explode from the inside and shatter into sword bits and shrapnel. It helps I've been working with both machines and blades since I was young. Took apart a bunch of old, scrapped cars and managed to assemble a working one when I was 16. But that too, took many mistakes. Not really any shame in it."