Right After Nurse's Message

[just7seconds]

[Well... isn't this great? What a kind and generous being this fake nurse is! Cloud looks thrilled (no, he doesn't - just the opposite).]

She'd rather kill us than try to work out any kind of deal. Could that be because she doesn't actually care as much as she claimed she did? Or maybe she's simply at a loss for ideas!

... Not that I expect most of you to care what I think, but here it is anyway:

She doesn't like that her "precious dollies" won't stay put. Being unable to keep a firm grip on them has her... in a panic or... maybe a quiet temper tantrum?

Figure out what you really want. I already know what my decision is. I've known since the first day.

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SPAM

[Or maybe they'll run into him, out in a hallway, or something. Or they're Sephiroth, who's basically never left his side!

Cloud's taken to spending a lot of time around Zack, ever since the latter went into a coma. This is most likely a good chunk of his reason for being so... this, lately.]

Comments

[sefirot]

Hm. You're correct. We'd be free of here.

[just7seconds]

Exactly. We wouldn't be dealing with any of this crap.

[He has never wished for Sephiroth's powers back, before. Not that he's completely wishing them back, even now? It's just... maybe a little nicer to imagine that, than just dying at the "mercy" of some strange, mysterious being.]

[sefirot]

My my Cloud. Is that you agreeing?

[just7seconds]

Heck no.

[... SIGH.]

'Not dealing with' isn't agreeing the situation would necessarily be better.

[But, after just a brief pause...]

If taking that crappy offer doesn't end the way I'm kind of expecting it to, and we somehow do wind up back on the Barge... [There's a look to Sephiroth, in-person.] No more stupid puzzles or kid's games.

[His jawline tightens.]

A real fight. Just us. Until one of us can no longer stand.

[sefirot]

That eager to fall, Cloud? I accept your challenge, though I'm not sure you're ready to fight me.

[just7seconds]

[So quick to do it - no surprises there. But... the point wasn't just what it says on the tin.

There's a goal now. One that's much more defined and familiar.]

Think and say whatever you want. It won't change what I said.

[Until only one of them is left standing. A real fight, rather than whatever they would have managed on this stupid ship.]

[sefirot]

If that's what you want, but I warn you that you will be at a greater disadvantage than any other time.

[As Sephiroth already knows most of Cloud's moves at this point.]