[He echoes, and through the weft of time, looking back through it as he once could through the Lifestream's pull, he remembers those words even though he was not there to hear them. The shape of a man's face who had spoken them once, to a Cloud so much younger than now. He knew him, didn't he? He exists now in the Lifestream, in some reality that had become his reality, before Sephiroth had begun to unravel the strands-
Focus on the here and now.
He meets Cloud's gaze, then lifts his chin to indicate the long row of pods again.]
No. SOLDIER is a stolen inheritance.
[Stolen from his Mother, her essence imbued in lesser beings as though they deserved even an ounce of it.
A few more pods shudder, shadows writhing inside. Blink and you'll miss it.]
It is. [Was. Is. The surroundings flicker again, like another is trying to bleed into its place.] To most. But do you believe that monsters are the only things that ever existed on this floor?
[He would remember Aerith and her room, wouldn't he? Kept caged with four metal walls.]
no subject
[He echoes, and through the weft of time, looking back through it as he once could through the Lifestream's pull, he remembers those words even though he was not there to hear them. The shape of a man's face who had spoken them once, to a Cloud so much younger than now. He knew him, didn't he? He exists now in the Lifestream, in some reality that had become his reality, before Sephiroth had begun to unravel the strands-
Focus on the here and now.
He meets Cloud's gaze, then lifts his chin to indicate the long row of pods again.]
No. SOLDIER is a stolen inheritance.
[Stolen from his Mother, her essence imbued in lesser beings as though they deserved even an ounce of it.
A few more pods shudder, shadows writhing inside. Blink and you'll miss it.]
It is. [Was. Is. The surroundings flicker again, like another is trying to bleed into its place.] To most. But do you believe that monsters are the only things that ever existed on this floor?
[He would remember Aerith and her room, wouldn't he? Kept caged with four metal walls.]