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How would he tell her? Warm brown eyes closed as he let his head rest back against the wall of the shambled church he knew Aerith was within. When he’d gotten the report about a large amount of bodies in the desert, ShinRa infantry, Tseng just knew that Zack hadn’t made it. There might not have been a body but even a SOLDIER 1st Class couldn’t survive that, if only he’d given the order sooner then maybe.

All those letters sitting in a box within his desk, left undelivered. He sighed softly as he heard the soft sounds of Aerith’s footsteps and he pushed away from the wall just as the door opened and she came out.

        “ we are all someone’s monster, ” he says and it’s ... what ? an admission ? a question disguised by conviction and folded arms ? however, there is one thing that cloud does know, that doesn’t dare pass his lips: but not you --- you’re an exception. where he may be her undoing, she will never be his. it wasn’t something that took long to realize.

         ❛    …….    i remind you of someone ?    ❜   single brow arches skyward  ;  limbs crossing against chest while nostrils flare up with a single , exaggerated HUFF.       ❛    …….    don’t see how that’s possible.    ❜

@maidenheld​ asked:   hey, i love your cloud. this is really random but i wanted to just put that out there. i'm really appreciative of the content you give out. your writing is beautiful.

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❝Do you grow herbs too? Or just flowers?❞

The question brought on as she flipped through an old mixology book, finger drifting down a page of a mojito longingly. All of the dried and preserved herbs never really proved to do it right. Always too... chalky, strong, off. It was a weird want, a privilege, especially in the wake of everything they faced -- but...

( * question starters | @maidenheld )

‘ forget something ? ’

     the question very clearly caught tifa off guard. her head tilted to the side, a soft,  ❛  hm?  ❜ leaving her. she was always very careful to take everything she needed, and normally she wouldn’t have ENTERTAINED the question ( there was no use dreading over something she had forgotten, after all ). but, they were only steps away from where they had prepared, and so it wouldn’t hurt to check.

     ❛ i...don’t think so.  ❜ her hands wandered over her POCKETS AND POUCHES, checking for materia, potions and ethers, extra gloves and tools. as far as she could tell, everything was present and accounted for, and she was ready to tell aerith so.

     but, the look on her face stopped her. smiling. PLAYFUL. looking far too much like marlene when she skipped down the steps of the bar to declare that she knew something that tifa didn’t. there was suddenly no doubt in tifa’s mind that she was missing something, and she would only be able to find out what from the flower girl before her.

      ❛ alright, ❜