[cloud frowns, but nods regardless. he remembers that—how could he? a moment in time where they stepped forward and things became all too convoluted to sort through. their fight with the arbiter of fate, the whispers, sephiroth.]

...far as I remember, we already went through. [how does he explain the crazy stuff that happened? maybe if she asks.] We even fought Sephiroth. I — was with him last.

[at the edge of creation.]

And he's here, too. In this place, but he's from five years ago, before he became what he is now for us.