[ cell phone call to Cloud ]
[Shelke lets the phone ring until Cloud picks up, then fails to speak right away.]
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Cloud Strife-- [her voice is uncertain, hushed. she sounds younger than usual, but perhaps that is only because she isn't presently able to actively try to sound older.] I--
State your current location.
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Cloud Strife-- [her voice is uncertain, hushed. she sounds younger than usual, but perhaps that is only because she isn't presently able to actively try to sound older.] I--
State your current location.
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Established contact with Dr. Hojo at 12:23 P.M.
Uplink to SND terminated at 12:35 P.M.
Total time spent in the network: seven hours and thirty-five minutes.
I--
He is in Midgar. The location is only approximate, but he--
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Deepground was his playground, his dream. He was finally gone, and now--
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I have shut down my network. I do not... know what else to do.
This phone call has served its purpose. I have nothing more to report.
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Could we... refrain from terminating the connection for now?
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[all but drops her phone, rising unsteadily to her feet before going over to unlock the bolts soldered into her door. she's not strong enough to open it in her present state, so she simply steps back and invites him in. then she simply stands there, leaning against the wall, feeling a little sick and a little nauseous and completely at a loss of what to do now that Cloud is actually here. she thought his presence would make her feel better somehow, but all she can feel is her usual almost blank discontent, the edges of it tinged with genuine fear.]
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No one. You were the first I contacted.
I did not mean to hasten you so. The Shera is not estimated to dock until tomorrow evening. There is... nothing to be done until then.
I am not sure why I called. It was a flawed and ineffective course of action to take.
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...you are mistaken, Cloud Strife.
There is no limit to the amount of damage that man is capable of as long as he has a mind to think with.
I... I do not want to be so ineffectual anymore. Even as an experiment, I was marked as a failure.
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You should leave. The levels of Mako in this room are detrimental to you.
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...as I told you, I hailed the Shera. I gave a progress report to the Commissioner. I spoke briefly to a girl I was unable to identify.
That was--
...that was all.
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...thank you.
[she says this softly, likely not even audibly, before she turns from him as well and goes to open her Mako chamber, initiating the regeneration sequence before shutting herself in. then she shuts her eyes and doesn't think about anything for a while.]
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