[ It's always difficult to see the pain pass through Cloud's face at even the smallest mention of Aerith. That wound is nowhere near scarring over, maybe it never will. Aerith had been truly special to all of them and she hadn't deserved her ultimate fate. Sometimes the anger of how unfair it is still flares up in Tifa until she has to punch it out of her.
They've had to move on, though, and while Cloud's remained tethered to Aerith in many ways, she can only hope that he continues to work toward letting her go, painful as it might be.
Now isn't the time to talk about it, though. Tifa hardly knows how to broach that subject most of the time, even when they're in a familiar environment. This definitely isn't that. But they got the issue of what happened before all this cleared up, so now they can focus on the present.
It might seem like the obvious explanation, that they're in the Lifestream, but it doesn't feel that way to Tifa. She feels whole and alive, like every breath of air that's going into her lungs is real, and yet that doesn't explain what happened. At Cloud's words she shakes her head -- she's never seen it either -- and then takes a look around again. ]
Well, it looks like there's a lot to explore... [ This doesn't hold a candle to Shin-Ra HQ, right? They can search the whole place. ] Maybe we'll find some answers if we keep looking. I just hope everyone else is okay.
[ Marlene and Denzel, Barret and Cid, Nanaki and Yuffie and Vincent...
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They've had to move on, though, and while Cloud's remained tethered to Aerith in many ways, she can only hope that he continues to work toward letting her go, painful as it might be.
Now isn't the time to talk about it, though. Tifa hardly knows how to broach that subject most of the time, even when they're in a familiar environment. This definitely isn't that. But they got the issue of what happened before all this cleared up, so now they can focus on the present.
It might seem like the obvious explanation, that they're in the Lifestream, but it doesn't feel that way to Tifa. She feels whole and alive, like every breath of air that's going into her lungs is real, and yet that doesn't explain what happened. At Cloud's words she shakes her head -- she's never seen it either -- and then takes a look around again. ]
Well, it looks like there's a lot to explore... [ This doesn't hold a candle to Shin-Ra HQ, right? They can search the whole place. ] Maybe we'll find some answers if we keep looking. I just hope everyone else is okay.
[ Marlene and Denzel, Barret and Cid, Nanaki and Yuffie and Vincent...
But they could take care of themselves, right? ]