[he stops, pulling away from that train of thought before he can even bring himself to consider that he brought it up at all.]
[this is another reason why cloud loathes the fact that it's sephiroth from before nibelheim burnt who stands before him; that it's not sephiroth, seemingly all-knowing and confident of something cloud wasn't even aware of even surmounted to anything.]
[it is why he mutters—] Useless. [—an echo of a statement in another world, how sephiroth is nothing but useless to him in this state, devoid of answers and insight, in a similar quest as him to figure things out.]
[with a huff and exhaustion clear in his movements, cloud steadies himself and places the sword onto his back again.]
Now you know how it works. [synchronicity.] Don't go dying just 'cause you're too embarrassed can't ask someone else to hold your hand for a minute.
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[he stops, pulling away from that train of thought before he can even bring himself to consider that he brought it up at all.]
[this is another reason why cloud loathes the fact that it's sephiroth from before nibelheim burnt who stands before him; that it's not sephiroth, seemingly all-knowing and confident of something cloud wasn't even aware of even surmounted to anything.]
[it is why he mutters—] Useless. [—an echo of a statement in another world, how sephiroth is nothing but useless to him in this state, devoid of answers and insight, in a similar quest as him to figure things out.]
[with a huff and exhaustion clear in his movements, cloud steadies himself and places the sword onto his back again.]
Now you know how it works. [synchronicity.] Don't go dying just 'cause you're too embarrassed can't ask someone else to hold your hand for a minute.
[all this barking, cloud,]