[He is sulking, and it is very surreal to see that expression on such a familiar (terrifying) face, however younger it is, let Cloud tell you. Very surreal indeed.
Cloud shifts his weight in the chair; slowly, so as not to raise any concerns, because there's enough tension in this room that a spoiled Platie could pick up on it. Despite the fact that Cloud has actively decided that he's going to belive this kid version of his enemy isn't...innately evil or manipulative or terrible, convincing himself of that is an entirely different manner.] I don't know how to do that.
[And that's part of the problem, part of why he wants to give Sephiroth the real story. Is Jenova gone back home? Vincent would have a better answer to that than Cloud would, but for as long as Cloud is alive, then at least some pieces of Jenova will survive. Maybe when they killed that last beast of Her deep in the Northern Crater, that was the last substantial chunk large enough to have its own will aside from Sephiroth, but maybe it wasn't. Maybe her cells are still lying strewn across the Planet, lingering in corpses, waiting to seep into the waters or be consumed by other beasts and slowly, achingly, make their own way together again for the great Reunion.
Cloud reaches up and touches his forehead, gently.]
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Cloud shifts his weight in the chair; slowly, so as not to raise any concerns, because there's enough tension in this room that a spoiled Platie could pick up on it. Despite the fact that Cloud has actively decided that he's going to belive this kid version of his enemy isn't...innately evil or manipulative or terrible, convincing himself of that is an entirely different manner.] I don't know how to do that.
[And that's part of the problem, part of why he wants to give Sephiroth the real story. Is Jenova gone back home? Vincent would have a better answer to that than Cloud would, but for as long as Cloud is alive, then at least some pieces of Jenova will survive. Maybe when they killed that last beast of Her deep in the Northern Crater, that was the last substantial chunk large enough to have its own will aside from Sephiroth, but maybe it wasn't. Maybe her cells are still lying strewn across the Planet, lingering in corpses, waiting to seep into the waters or be consumed by other beasts and slowly, achingly, make their own way together again for the great Reunion.
Cloud reaches up and touches his forehead, gently.]