It's not too unusual a place to find Roland, and it's quiet, that's what Tidus notices first. The transgates mean less walking between areas people don't want to, and the garden has no resources to give people except space as they return from their mission.

Their false mission. Fake mission. A detail that doesn't really matter, for everything else that was real.

"Fine," he answers, to some honest degree, wanting to assure first: "They didn't do anything to us. Just left us bored, watching you guys scramble around. ...sorry if you were worried," he adds after a beat. "We couldn't contact. How much do you know about it?"

Did Inigo already get to him? Someone else?