❖ 04; Rupert Giles; voice;

[notabsent]

[throat clearing]Now, ah...this might turn out to be difficult, but in an attempt to bring some kind of formality to this, this, this organisation of sorts, I have set out to keep a record, like a census, if you will, on the people and the places with which they are from. As such, rather evidently, I do require to ask people if they are willing to

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[Voice]

[unlocked_hart]

Hello! Um, I'm Tifa Lockhart and I'm from Edge. Annnnd, I guess you might need the planet too, which is Gaia.

[Voice]

[notabsent]

Well, yes, Ms Lockhart, that is useful, although I am aware that there are a number of you present from this Gaia as it is.

[Voice]

[unlocked_hart]

[Tifa laughs a little.]

Yeah, I know. There's Yuffie, Cloud, Aerith, Tseng, Reno, plus a few others, too.

[Voice]

[notabsent]

My, that is a [well that's a lot of you actually; was there a mass exodus on Gaia?] I have spoken to a Cloud and an Aerith.

I wonder if there is a reason for this.

[Voice]

[unlocked_hart]

Oh? Yeah, they're friends of mine.

I'm...not sure. [This place brought those SOLDIERS too, drat it. ...Zack...was from Gaia, too. [Yeah, and so was Marlene...]

[Voice]

[notabsent]

So you all know each other too? [And that is fascinating in a strange kind of way.]

There may be a pattern to look through.

[Voice]

[unlocked_hart]

Well, some of us do. Some of the others from Gaia...aren't so nice, or weren't, or something. It's confusing.

[Voice]

[notabsent]

So you have a group you are familiar with and a group in which you are not? [He's starting to think of flow charts and data indexes and all sorts of fun little things to do.]

[Voice]

[unlocked_hart]

Err, something like that, yeah.