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[This video starts up in a tree; there are a couple branches in the way and some ridiculously pale person with blond J-pop hair pacing around in a circle. He does this for a moment before squinting up at the camera.]

...what are you?

[He disappears from view, then the camera shakes violently following a dull THUD.]

Ow. That hurt.

[There's another thud and the camera shakes again before the journal topples out of the tree and onto the ground. It doesn't stay there for long; it's lifted and shaken out, and Cloud's face is captured for a moment until the camera settles on his chin instead.]

...when did I buy this thing? [And the book snaps shut.]

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[She sits next to him with a slightly rueful smile.] We did go for coffee, once. So we were at least proto-friends at the coffee level. And I pretty much feel that New Feathers can always use a drop or two of kindness. I know it sucks, waking up here.

Yeah...

I don't know. I don't think it's sunk in. [Flip flip on the phone.] I feel like I can just walk and eventually get somewhere I recognize. Or my signal'll come back and I can call someone to give me a lift.

The sinking in can be a bit of a...work in progress, yeah. As for a lift? Well--there's some kind of mystical barrier around the whole place. We're a hermetically sealed commune of mismatched hermits. At least we've got electricity, now--even if we don't get bars on our phones.

Yeah, that's what this other guy told me too. [SIGH. Gulp.]

Well, about the barrier thing. I didn't know about the electricity. That must've sucked, not having it.

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It was pretty bad. I mean--me? I'm a girl who depends on her hair dryer.

[Holding onto the coffee cup--more for warmth than the taste.]

Mmm. [Girly.]

Hey, you said that people who've passed away can show up here, right?

[Slow nod.] Yep, they can.

[Cloud turns the cup in his hands.]

...have you ever met a girl here? She'd probably be all in pink, and have a crazy obsession with flowers and plants.

[Buffy nods.] Aerith.

[Cloud's fingers tighten and the cup creaks before he looses his hold again.]

She-

Is she still here? Do you know where I can find her?

[...Buffy slowly shakes her head. No, not still here.]

...oh.

Yeah, I guess not. [Gulping his coffee even though it's too hot for that.]

Me and her were pretty good friends. Definitely past the proto-stage.

I'm not surprised. She could make friends with just about anybody. [Barret, Vincent...]

That I can definitely agree with. I mean, the three of you made and unlikely group...[oh crap.]

The three of us?

Who else was here? [Tifa maybe? Or Yuffie? Maybe it was Barret, since she said "unlikely."]

A guy named Zack. You all...kinda lived in the same place. [Buffy thinks. She knows it got complicated towards the end.] But there were others here from your world, too.

Zack...- [Cloud's eyes widen as his brain catches up with the conversation.]

Zack? Was- Was he a big guy, dark hair? A scar here, on his jaw? [Cloud presses a finger against his right cheek.]

I didn't spend a lot of time examining his jaw but--yeah, Zack.

[Cloud rests his chin in his hand and leans forward to set his elbow on his knee. Aerith and Zack.]

...who...who else was here from my world? [If he hears stuff like "Sephiroth" and "Hojo" and "Rufus Shinra" then he'll know he's dead.]

Tifa, and--uhm...Vincent? [An exhale.] Kadaj and his brothers.

[Tifa and Vincent, yes. But uh.]

Who and his brothers?

Silver hair, leather fetish? [And a sore subject for her.]

[Cloud's fingers clenche against his chin.]

Sephiroth?

They were clones of his, I think. He was here too--but he left before you did.

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