Firion gestured to his hand. "You have a choice now. And from here on in, you will always have a choice. If you want to become stronger still, that's fine. But please do so in a manner that doesn't leave you in a dark lonely cave and makes your friends worry, that's all I ask."

And that is probably all Firion would ever ask of Squall, the Cosmos Warrior he barely knew but still considered a friend.