[cloud actually scoffs, something stuck into a laugh.]

The great general of SOLDIER, with hardly a plan for something so essential to our survival in this world.

[it's almost mocking, though part of cloud sympathizes to the fact that this is, in many ways, harder to get through than simply fighting monsters and terrors of the night. cloud is fortunate, perhaps, to have obnoxious people who have taken him under his wing (not that he would admit to that) and have created annoying routines to make sure his manna stays stable on a daily basis.]

[it's a sad sight, and so cloud deliberately puts a hand forward, palm up.]

You have to be willing, too.