For the longest time, something like that between them- it had been simply fact. A cold, hard fact, granted, about a village he didn't save. About a General he couldn't save either. About a man once so highly respected in ShinRa having to be torn down off his pedestal when everything went wrong. About how everything had gone wrong after that- but the way he says it.
Jim's not talking about anything like that. And something in Zack clenches tight even as apparent fear races in his widening eyes for the split second he looks at Jim. Like he'd suddenly been stripped bare for all to see. Like back at the hospital when Zell had found him.
It's just a moment- there and gone -and then he's looking down at the floor instead. ] But how? I mean I was...
[ Dead men don't dream. Unless... He clenches his fist tight at his knee. ]
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For the longest time, something like that between them- it had been simply fact. A cold, hard fact, granted, about a village he didn't save. About a General he couldn't save either. About a man once so highly respected in ShinRa having to be torn down off his pedestal when everything went wrong. About how everything had gone wrong after that- but the way he says it.
Jim's not talking about anything like that. And something in Zack clenches tight even as apparent fear races in his widening eyes for the split second he looks at Jim. Like he'd suddenly been stripped bare for all to see. Like back at the hospital when Zell had found him.
It's just a moment- there and gone -and then he's looking down at the floor instead. ] But how? I mean I was...
[ Dead men don't dream. Unless... He clenches his fist tight at his knee. ]