For all that Cloud wants to just brush off every word Sephiroth says as lies, a part of him continues to grow both confused and a little curious. This is far more than he's ever heard the one in his nightmares speak to him at all, for one, and for the other...
Why come up with such a story in the first place? There is a despondency Cloud picks up with the silver-haired SOLDIER's way of explaining Jenova that rings eerily genuine. As quickly as his mind starts to slip towards offering Sephiroth an ounce of belief, it jerks back, reeling and replaying the repeated traumas the man- or if this Sephiroth is to be believed, the virus with his face- inflicted on him.
None of it makes sense. Those misgivings in his eyes and how he purses his lips might not be easy to read for most, but for a man who knows Cloud as well as Sephiroth does, perhaps he can see it.
"Why then? You're dead. How do you even exist anymore if you aren't the same guy? Plus...You feel like him. Like you."
Cloud isn't even entirely sure what he means by feel. That pull. A certain chill he gets. One he always gets, even if Sephiroth is out of sight, that tells him he is near. Magnetic in the absolute worst of ways.
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Why come up with such a story in the first place? There is a despondency Cloud picks up with the silver-haired SOLDIER's way of explaining Jenova that rings eerily genuine. As quickly as his mind starts to slip towards offering Sephiroth an ounce of belief, it jerks back, reeling and replaying the repeated traumas the man- or if this Sephiroth is to be believed, the virus with his face- inflicted on him.
None of it makes sense. Those misgivings in his eyes and how he purses his lips might not be easy to read for most, but for a man who knows Cloud as well as Sephiroth does, perhaps he can see it.
"Why then? You're dead. How do you even exist anymore if you aren't the same guy? Plus...You feel like him. Like you."
Cloud isn't even entirely sure what he means by feel. That pull. A certain chill he gets. One he always gets, even if Sephiroth is out of sight, that tells him he is near. Magnetic in the absolute worst of ways.