Is anyone still themselves around here? Memories intact and everything?

[Cloud doesn't care about the hows or the whys right now... he's more concerned about how he's going to look after ALL THE KIDS by himself.]

[The feed's already on for a few minutes as Cloud tries to figure out what to say. Aside from one conversation they had, they're pretty much strangers. And Cloud figured that his request was going to be plenty awkward.]

So...mind if I ask you a question. Heard something around the network and stuff...

[Cloud knew full well what he was seeing wasn't real. He'd suffered enough mental attacks to recognize them as hallucinations, but right now he couldn't stop his own mind from broadcasting his nightmares all over through tenaka. All he could do was huddle on the ground, gripping the hilt of his word tightly to stop himself from lashing out at his ( Read more... )

[It was a nice calm, sunny day in Il Promenade. The sun was shining, the birds were singing and all was...not entirely well. In the short time he was here, Cloud had gotten used to a fairly complacent and mostly polite local populace. Today however Cloud's sharp hearing and eyesight could pick up dark glares and muttered insults aimed at him as he ( Read more... )

[Cloud is sitting on the ground, slumping back against the wall of a building and his eyes are half closed with exhaustion. His swords, one in his hand, and the rest are lying haphazardly around him, dull with blood and dirt and who knows what else. He himself doesn't look much better, with blood in his hair and on his clothes, which are torn in ( Read more... )

[The video onlines to what a lot of people would consider a run down, dinky place. There are broken pews here and there, boards half hanging from the ceiling, and the glass in the windows mostly gone, though there were still some colourful panes remaining intact here and there ( Read more... )

[The video turns on to the view of a corner of a generic bedroom ceiling in house 14, then it swivels to Cloud's half annoyed, half puzzled face. It then swivels again to another equally boring corner of the ceiling before Cloud sets his PHS down on the bedside table towards himself ( Read more... )

[The video onlines to the half-annoyed, half-puzzled face of a blonde chocobo swordsman peering at the video feed. The background's a generic bedroom belonging to House 18, forth floor.]

Didn't know my phone could do video...Alright. I don't think I'm hallucinating. I'm not suffering from mako poisoning or any other form of poisoning or curse ( Read more... )