[ ... at first, it doesn't really register. Not quite. But her smile slowly fades.
"Master Van's here."
Wait, it ... it can't be. This person...? He seems so...
"He was the one person I trusted for seven years..."
"I-I... Master Van brought me to- s-something called a Sephiroth T-Tree. He said if I used it on that, I'd- I'd destroy the miasma and everything would be just fine and everyone wouldn't be so sick and I'd- I'd finally be free, but...
He didn't tell me that the Tree was holding up Akzeriuth. I... I destroyed it and it... I... The whole city fell and-
There were thousands of people and I killed them all!"
Xion surges to her feet, so suddenly and with such violence that her chair goes crashing to the floor. The sound is loud as a gunshot in the otherwise quiet library. Her grip on the edge of the table is white-knuckled, tight enough to make her hands shake, and she is starkly pale.
This man...
She told him her name.
Her words are very, very quiet. She isn't thinking. ]
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"Master Van's here."
Wait, it ... it can't be. This person...? He seems so...
"He was the one person I trusted for seven years..."
"I-I... Master Van brought me to- s-something called a Sephiroth T-Tree. He said if I used it on that, I'd- I'd destroy the miasma and everything would be just fine and everyone wouldn't be so sick and I'd- I'd finally be free, but...
He didn't tell me that the Tree was holding up Akzeriuth. I... I destroyed it and it... I... The whole city fell and-
There were thousands of people and I killed them all!"
Xion surges to her feet, so suddenly and with such violence that her chair goes crashing to the floor. The sound is loud as a gunshot in the otherwise quiet library. Her grip on the edge of the table is white-knuckled, tight enough to make her hands shake, and she is starkly pale.
This man...
She told him her name.
Her words are very, very quiet. She isn't thinking. ]
I know who you are.