Children Are Our Future

Children Are Our Future

Quest giver

Azure-haired Woman

Location

Garlemald (X:31.4, Y:13.1)

Quest line

Garlean Sidequests

Level

80 

Required quest

Strange Bedfellows

Experience

 168,300-190,575

Gil

 1,055

Patch

6.0

Links

EDB GT TC

“

A woman with startling blue hair is in search of her son who has disappeared without a trace.

— In-game description

Rewards

Unlocks

•   Aether Current

Steps

• Search for the azure-haired boy.
• Search the designated location and follow the azure-haired boy.
• Follow the azure-haired boy and defeat any enemies that threaten him.
• Rescue the azure-haired boy.
• Report to the azure-haired woman.

Journal

• A woman with startling blue hair is in search of her son who has disappeared without a trace.

Dialogue

Accepting the Quest

Azure-haired Woman: Excuse me, ma'am? Have you seen a little boy with hair a similar shade to mine? He's my son, and I can't find him anywhere!
Azure-haired Woman: It all started when I told him we ought to seek refuge in your encampment, and he started wailing and sobbing like I'd never seen. The next thing I knew, he was running hell-for-leather goodness knows where.
Azure-haired Woman: I'm worried he may have left the station altogether, and the streets above are rife with danger! Please, could you find him for me?
Azure-haired Woman: Oh you will? Bless your heart! If I know my son, he's probably tried to return to our house to the north of Palatium Novum. Try there first before anywhere. He'll be easy to recognize I should think, what with the color of his hair and all.

(Optional)
Azure-haired Woman: I will try searching the station again just in case, though I'd bet anything he's gone back to our house near Palatium Novum.

Search for the azure-haired boy

Azure-haired Boy: Another blocked street...?
Azure-haired Boy: Wh-Who are you?
Azure-haired Boy: Mother sent you? Hmph! Tell her I won't go to the enemy's camp─ I'm going home!

System: The boy with the sky blue hair has made good his escape. You had best resume your search for this obstreperous youth.

Search the designated location and follow the azure-haired boy

Azure-haired Boy: Stop following me!

System: Once again, the boy with the sky blue hair has taken flight, and will likely be looking over his shoulder for signs of trouble from now on. With a weary sigh, you resume the hunt.

Azure-haired Boy: No... Our home, it was here─right here!
Azure-haired Boy: You again? Leave me alone! I'm staying here to build a new house─bigger and better than the old one!

System: The child has escaped your grasp yet again. Though this may be construed as a particularly tiresome endeavor, remember that he is only a child and knows no better. You should find him before he comes to harm.

Rescue the azure-haired boy

Azure-haired Boy: Why do you care so much?
Azure-haired Boy: We're enemies, remember? Why are you trying to help me?

< What will you say? > 
< You need help, and I'm offering it. >
< How would your mother feel if something were to happen to you? >

< Both >
Azure-haired Boy: <sniffle> I don't care what you say! We don't need your help!
Azure-haired Boy: But Mother's worried. I should go back. To the station.

Report to the azure-haired woman

Azure-haired Woman: I was wondering when I would see you again. I'm happy to report my son has returned. Poor creature... You should have seen him─tears pouring down his little cheeks, crying his apologies to me. I know that you were the one who found him, though he didn't mention a word of it to me.
Azure-haired Woman: I almost couldn't believe my ears when he said he wouldn't mind moving to your camp. He was dead against it only hours ago. What could have happened, I wonder?
Azure-haired Woman: What? He was attacked? By that horrid magitek, you say? Goodness, that must have been quite a shock for my little man. Thank you for coming to his rescue.
Azure-haired Woman: There is a salutary lesson to be gained from all this, though, one that I hope he retains. Do not scorn a proffered hand when one is in need, whether that hand be friend or foe's. At any rate, I thank you for finding him. It's not much, but please, I insist.