[Voice]

[meteor_heart]

...Cloud Strife is no longer in Siren's Port.

Comments

[showbizpanache]

...What?

[Video]

[meteor_heart]

I'm sorry Kurt, Cloud's gone. He's been pulled back home. [She sounds...tired, eyes fixed down and bangs hiding her gaze.]

[Video]

[showbizpanache]

No, it's-- Are you all right?

[Video]

[meteor_heart]

I...will be, I swear. It's just happened a lot, and it hurts at least a little every time. On the other hand, if you're still looking for a place, I have an open bedroom. [She offers up a weak but genuine smile.]

voice.

[escapedpandora]

...Tifa?

[He sounds concerned.]

[Voice]

[meteor_heart]

I'll be okay Hope, I promise. I can't make a big deal every time he comes and goes right? It's not fair to everyone else. Just hurts a little at the beginning.

[escapedpandora]

It always hurts. It doesn't stop hurting to be left behind.

I-- I think it's okay if you want to make a big deal out of it.

[meteor_heart]

...you're pretty smart, you know that? [She smiles a little, shifting around in her blanket.] I just don't want to burden everyone else every time I get lonely you know? It's not fair, and it's not like people here don't have plenty to worry about already.

[makes_asteroids]

Oh Tifa. [So much sympathy.]

[Video]

[meteor_heart]

It's okay, really. I'll be okay, I need to not make a huge deal about this every time it happens. Cloud's very special, he's got a destiny...so even the Core can't hold him right? [She offers up a weak smile, it's genuine, but still doesn't go quite all the way to her eyes.]

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[makes_asteroids]

True but it's all right to be upset over it. Just because you understand it, doesn't mean it doesn't hurt.

[Video]

[meteor_heart]

It does hurt...but I can't let it keep getting to me. There's too much to do here, too much important to just go to pieces. [Besides, that's standard operating procedure for Tifa. Throw up the facade and power through until it doesn't hurt so bad.]

[little_bandages]

...Sorry about your friend.

[Video]

[meteor_heart]

Me too. But thank you for saying, Mr. Aoyagi.

[Video]

[little_bandages]

He might come back. I came here without my friend, and then he came, and he left. Many months later, he returned.

[Video]

[meteor_heart]

This is the fourth time Cloud's come to Siren's Port and gone again. I'm almost certain I'll see him again, but I can't keep going to pieces every time he goes home right?

[Video]

[dr_byronorpheus]

The whims of the Core are difficult to understand.

[Video]

[meteor_heart]

[She nods, letting out a breath and smiling weakly.] Yup, and Cloud's always been important. Even the Core can't keep him here if he has to leave.

[Video]

[dr_byronorpheus]

You say that as if you think he found a way to leave of his own volition.

[Video]

[meteor_heart]

No, nothing like that. But Cloud's important to Gaia, to our planet at home. With how often he arrives and then leaves again so fast, I wonder if she's pulling him back.