It's when he's skimming the other responses, more specifically those with "arachnebuster" that he notices the first signs of something unexpected. Not one name that he's heard of before. Nor two. No, three. In a consecutive list. And suddenly this turns from a quick skim review of tundra survival to something else entirely as he curiously begins to root through the rest.
Fort Condor. The Corel Desert. Cosmo Canyon.
Military. Twenties.
Midgar.
When Gaia pops up somewhere down the line, that settles it. There's no way they could be anyone else but someone from back from his world. Someone who definitely serves under ShinRa's thumb. Someone who definitely keeps tabs on all information and shares it as well as they can with the involved party. Someone who knows that lipstick is flammable (and hinted quite possibly that they learned it in an interesting way...)
Zack knows he should be more cautious though. That one wrong move and maybe he would be done. Maybe he would come to regret getting in touch with them if they're not who he thinks they are... and maybe a part of him really hopes it's not who he thinks because if it is, they're now in the same boat as him and Norfinbury's not a place he would wish on anyone, but especially not people so important to him. But now even the text style's starting to piece itself together.... The more he reads it, the more he's almost certain... ]
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It's when he's skimming the other responses, more specifically those with "arachnebuster" that he notices the first signs of something unexpected. Not one name that he's heard of before. Nor two. No, three. In a consecutive list. And suddenly this turns from a quick skim review of tundra survival to something else entirely as he curiously begins to root through the rest.
Fort Condor. The Corel Desert. Cosmo Canyon.
Military. Twenties.
Midgar.
When Gaia pops up somewhere down the line, that settles it. There's no way they could be anyone else but someone from back from his world. Someone who definitely serves under ShinRa's thumb. Someone who definitely keeps tabs on all information and shares it as well as they can with the involved party. Someone who knows that lipstick is flammable (and hinted quite possibly that they learned it in an interesting way...)
Zack knows he should be more cautious though. That one wrong move and maybe he would be done. Maybe he would come to regret getting in touch with them if they're not who he thinks they are... and maybe a part of him really hopes it's not who he thinks because if it is, they're now in the same boat as him and Norfinbury's not a place he would wish on anyone, but especially not people so important to him. But now even the text style's starting to piece itself together.... The more he reads it, the more he's almost certain... ]