Early the next morning, Curt sat alone on his uncle's porch basking in the warmth of the rising sun, when Mark came out and sat next to him. They both sat in silence for a few moments.

"Curt, I'm going to take the airship back to Leora to see if I can find out what Richter's up to. I have to confront my brother sooner or later," Mark stated.

"I knew you were going to say that," Curt replied calmly.

"I want you to come with me. I can't do it alone," Mark added.

"I was hoping you were going to say that," Curt said with a slight grin.

"Boy, you just eat up adventure every chance you get," Mark said with a laugh.

"Apparently, I'm not the only one who's craving adventure," Curt said as he elbowed Mark.

"You can say that again...what about us?" came a woman's voice from behind.

Curt and Mark turned to see Paul and Autumn standing in the doorway with their arms crossed.

"Yeah...were you planning on just leaving us behind?" Paul asked.

"Well, in fact, I was planning on asking you both to help too," Mark answered.

"Well, then I guess you'd better ask, sir," Autumn teased.

"It's gonna take a strong group of friends to accomplish this mission...friends like all of you...will you help?" Mark asked.

"Of course! What are friends for? Besides, I wanna ride in that big hunk of flying junk again," Paul said.

"Can we leave as soon as possible?" Mark asked, looking at each of his three friends.

Everyone nodded and then returned inside to prepare.

Curt shared the new plans with Cid and Ren, who were talking about the airship over breakfast. Curt convinced Ren to at least go along with the mission until they found out what Richter's true intentions were. Once preparations and farewells were made, everyone returned to the airship. Cid walked back to the airship with Curt and then gave him one last hug when they reached the ramp.

"Take good care of Charlie for me," Curt said.

"Will do!" Cid assured.

"Oh, hang on a moment!" Curt instructed as he ran inside the airship.

A few minutes later, Curt reemerged holding several vials of myrrh. He carefully handed the vials to Cid, told him what they were, and then ran back up the ramp and disappeared into the airship. As Cid watched the airship lift off, Curt appeared on the deck and waved goodbye.