Just then, a woman's image is seen, and it whispers "...Hello, SeeDs recruit...I cannot speak long, as many of balamb's guards are on alert, but you must know this...I am a former guard, exiled from the garden for Illegal experiments with the Guardian Forces Pact Rings..." and the image seems to be clutching onto a sort of ephmereal version of himself, as she wielded a rather heavy set of magical weapons.