[He's relieved to hear that it has nothing to do with himself and Cloud, but he pushes that emotion away in the next second. To have it replaced with some other mode of stress or worry isn't necessarily something he should wish on him, either.]

Your headaches. They're still as bad as they were.

[He remembers them. Annoyances when they were kind, reasons for depriving Cloud of a night's sleep when they were not.]

And when you say how things are changing, do you mean Rufus Shinra's new role as President?

[And how...? Cloud does not work here, so he does not feel the transformative policies and changes being rolled out from top to bottom, but instead from a more... personal standpoint?

A frown crosses his features, but he lets him reply first.]