In a manner of speaking yes. It would seem some form of attack was loosed on the world shortly prior to our arrival, Lindblum was one of those specifically targeted I've been told.
Regent Cid. I'm guarding his daughter, Eiko. [Babysitter and soon to be partner in crime was more like it but we're not going to get into that here on the phone.]
10. [Go ahead and laugh, needless to say its best he thinks not to judge the girl by age alone, especially considering she can apparently summon things to fight for her.]
If you care to put it so, but I doubt this will be an easy job considering the trouble she seems prone to get into. One of the reasons I imagine why she even needs a guardian in the first place, since she certainly isn't completely defenseless.
She can summon creatures to her out of thin air... [He's utterly serious about that, really, he's seen her do it. And he has no doubt they could rip into anyone who decided to give the girl shit if so ordered to.] ...creatures akin to Shiva to give an example.
[He doesn't sound so enthralled. It's truly interesting, but this was a whole new world with a new set of rules, he assumed. Just like in the books he read as a child, really. Every world was unique.]
Can you find your way to the castle? I'll go speak with the Regent about you staying in the castle as a guest and then leave word with the guards for them to let you in.
[He has an idea just what the man wants to speak of, though he's uncertain how to really proceed with the redhead considering the one in his memory that had been here and had helped him had been from even further into his future than this one was. Should he tell the man what he knew of their futures or should he keep silent? Perhaps the answer would solve itself once they were face to face..]
[He turns off the phone and pockets it, deciding to walk to the castle instead of fly. He was actually tired and his wing was sore from the amount of flying. He'd never flown an entire world before. It takes about thirty minutes but soon he arrives at the gate, where the guards let him through after a moment or two of stating his name and his business.
[It wasn't long before the former general located Genesis within the castle and upon finding the redhead turns about to lead him to the guest room within it.]
[This castle was seriously like out of some kind of fairy tale. And Sephiroth was guarding a royal here. He shook his head, well, it was certainly better than what was going on Gaia, he supposed.]
I suppose first and foremost, I'd like to know what you already know.
[He leaned back against the closed door of the room as he thought about just how to respond to that and finally moved away from the door toward the middle of the room to lessen any chance someone passing by the door might overhear him speaking.]
About Gaia or about myself?
[Might as well get the cat out of the bag now and dealt with really.]
[Genesis took to sitting on the desk in the room.]
Both, really. But I'd prefer the latter first, if you don't mind.
[Toward the last leg of his insanity, he had moments to reflect on what he did. His last chat with Zack pretty much proved this, not that Sephiroth would know. But at the time, he hadn't ever dreamed of seeing Sephiroth again.]
A lot has happened and not a lot of time for me to reflect on everything fully. But I would like to know what you already know so I can... begin again, I suppose.
[Trust Genesis to pick the hardest of the two topics to begin with, still he had asked and might as well get it out of the way.]
I know about both Projects, G and S. I know whom my mother is....and my father. I know what happens in Nibelheim if only through other people telling me of the events there. I trust I don't need to go into too much detail about those things?
It wasn't easy to accept...but with help from others and my friends, I finally realized that I...don't have to be a monster if I don't want to be one. Despite what was done to me among other things...[Let's not talk about Cloud dying by his hand once during that farce. The blond it happened to wasn't here anyway and thus he rather doubted it would come up unless someone purposely brought it up that had been here during that time. As for the other small detail, he wasn't sure he wanted to deal with it just at the moment if he didn't need to.]
What happened in those mines with Zack? If I may ask?
[He nodded. There was no need to reiterate what happened then. It was never easy to accept but there was no point in dwelling on it now, either.
He contemplated the next question for several moments.]
I had found the Goddess materia there, within the Banora Mines. It was where I had been hiding. I had... degraded enough that my hair had turned white and my skin was ashen. Even my eyes lost the mako glow. But when I activated the materia, it not only restored me but gave me too much.
I turned into a monster, though Zack was able to quell the fight and I was restored. The degradation ceased and I am as you see me now. Zack carried me out and I assume he continued on his way to Midgar with that cadet.
He did...but the company...they shot him down a few miles away from the city itself. The cadet survived and later on was apparently responsible for defeating me at a later date.
I found out from you the last time we were here that you were also re-taken by the company or part of it at least...but you managed to leave them again and hide away from everything for a length of time before you had been brought here; He..you also told me that they had erased everything about you in their records save for the first letter of your name.
[It had to have been while he was unconscious. He remembered feeling a set of arms around him before waking up here. There was no way that he would have allowed himself to be taken. He shrugged lightly.]
I can't say I'm surprised that I was virtually erased. They had started doing that as soon as I defected, really.
[Still, it was sad to hear Zack didn't make it. Another victim of Genesis' madness.]
I don't know. [He wasn't exactly eager to go into what happened to Zack because of his apparent bout of madness while they were together fighting Paragon, especially considering the wariness first displayed by the pup when the boy first called him up.]
I don't see how it would benefit him any to tell him of it myself, so I haven't spoken with him of it.
As for Gaia, I believe the cause of our being here is due to a man by the name of Garland. He sought to do something with this world, but it didn't go as he planned and it thus affected other worlds, ours included which is why we find ourselves brought here with no warning and from various different points in time.
I believe that they managed to find a way to send people back to their worlds but it was dangerous and they couldn't pull it off for long. Obviously, I have no interest in returning to our world..[Especially not after what he recalls being told to him about his future.]
....I still consider you a friend of mine, especially with the help you gave me previously here. Should I discard those actions just because it wasn't you personally who did it?
What happened before...you weren't thinking straight...and considering the amount of pain you must have been in at the time, it's not surprising that you did all that you did do or were tricked into doing for the sake of your finding a cure.
Any idea what you're going to do with yourself here yet? Last time we tried our hands at mercenary work, likely someone here still could use a good swordsman for hire to tend to issues they haven't the time or ability to deal with.
I do not know, unless you desire to involve yourself in manual labor. There seems quite a bit of rebuilding left to be done. I'm sure more hands to help do it would be welcomed.
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Date: 2011-06-04 09:05 am (UTC)Hello?
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Date: 2011-06-04 04:59 pm (UTC)[He chuckles a little.]
Was this a warzone?
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Date: 2011-06-04 11:39 pm (UTC)Have you a found a place to stay yet?
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Date: 2011-06-04 11:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-05 12:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-05 01:45 am (UTC)[Then again, this was Sephiroth. He wondered if the man could do anything without being given an order to do so.]
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Date: 2011-06-05 02:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-05 03:02 am (UTC)[Don't worry, Genesis will find out soon enough and make fun of you then.]
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Date: 2011-06-05 03:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-05 03:39 am (UTC)So you've become a babysitter? How the mighty have fallen~
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Date: 2011-06-05 04:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-05 05:01 am (UTC)[All children were.]
Oh? How so?
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Date: 2011-06-05 05:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-05 05:33 am (UTC)[He doesn't sound so enthralled. It's truly interesting, but this was a whole new world with a new set of rules, he assumed. Just like in the books he read as a child, really. Every world was unique.]
Sounds like quite the gift indeed.
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Date: 2011-06-05 05:55 am (UTC)Can you find your way to the castle? I'll go speak with the Regent about you staying in the castle as a guest and then leave word with the guards for them to let you in.
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Date: 2011-06-05 04:06 pm (UTC)[He makes a surprised sound. Sephiroth was being generous so easily. Why?
He sighs.]
We need to talk.
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Date: 2011-06-05 04:41 pm (UTC)[cue brief pause]
Yes. I know.
[He has an idea just what the man wants to speak of, though he's uncertain how to really proceed with the redhead considering the one in his memory that had been here and had helped him had been from even further into his future than this one was. Should he tell the man what he knew of their futures or should he keep silent? Perhaps the answer would solve itself once they were face to face..]
[Voice-->Action]
Date: 2011-06-05 04:51 pm (UTC)[He turns off the phone and pockets it, deciding to walk to the castle instead of fly. He was actually tired and his wing was sore from the amount of flying. He'd never flown an entire world before. It takes about thirty minutes but soon he arrives at the gate, where the guards let him through after a moment or two of stating his name and his business.
He walks inside to find Sephiroth.]
[Action]
Date: 2011-06-05 05:27 pm (UTC)We can talk here.
[Action]
Date: 2011-06-05 05:35 pm (UTC)I suppose first and foremost, I'd like to know what you already know.
[Action]
Date: 2011-06-05 07:49 pm (UTC)About Gaia or about myself?
[Might as well get the cat out of the bag now and dealt with really.]
[Action]
Date: 2011-06-05 07:53 pm (UTC)Both, really. But I'd prefer the latter first, if you don't mind.
[Toward the last leg of his insanity, he had moments to reflect on what he did. His last chat with Zack pretty much proved this, not that Sephiroth would know. But at the time, he hadn't ever dreamed of seeing Sephiroth again.]
A lot has happened and not a lot of time for me to reflect on everything fully. But I would like to know what you already know so I can... begin again, I suppose.
[Action]
Date: 2011-06-05 08:27 pm (UTC)I know about both Projects, G and S. I know whom my mother is....and my father. I know what happens in Nibelheim if only through other people telling me of the events there. I trust I don't need to go into too much detail about those things?
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Date: 2011-06-05 08:43 pm (UTC)You don't. Though you are certainly taking it much better this time around.
[Not that he couldn't have said it different before.]
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Date: 2011-06-05 09:07 pm (UTC)What happened in those mines with Zack? If I may ask?
[Action]
Date: 2011-06-05 09:15 pm (UTC)He contemplated the next question for several moments.]
I had found the Goddess materia there, within the Banora Mines. It was where I had been hiding. I had... degraded enough that my hair had turned white and my skin was ashen. Even my eyes lost the mako glow. But when I activated the materia, it not only restored me but gave me too much.
I turned into a monster, though Zack was able to quell the fight and I was restored. The degradation ceased and I am as you see me now. Zack carried me out and I assume he continued on his way to Midgar with that cadet.
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Date: 2011-06-05 09:59 pm (UTC)I found out from you the last time we were here that you were also re-taken by the company or part of it at least...but you managed to leave them again and hide away from everything for a length of time before you had been brought here; He..you also told me that they had erased everything about you in their records save for the first letter of your name.
[Action]
Date: 2011-06-05 10:10 pm (UTC)I can't say I'm surprised that I was virtually erased. They had started doing that as soon as I defected, really.
[Still, it was sad to hear Zack didn't make it. Another victim of Genesis' madness.]
Does he know?
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Date: 2011-06-05 10:16 pm (UTC)I don't see how it would benefit him any to tell him of it myself, so I haven't spoken with him of it.
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Date: 2011-06-05 10:25 pm (UTC)Better for someone else to let him know.
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Date: 2011-06-05 10:55 pm (UTC)I believe that they managed to find a way to send people back to their worlds but it was dangerous and they couldn't pull it off for long. Obviously, I have no interest in returning to our world..[Especially not after what he recalls being told to him about his future.]
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Date: 2011-06-05 11:23 pm (UTC)[Genesis didn't have anything to go back to, really. But... he was curious.]
You are taking my presence rather well, Sephiroth. Why is that?
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Date: 2011-06-05 11:37 pm (UTC)What happened before...you weren't thinking straight...and considering the amount of pain you must have been in at the time, it's not surprising that you did all that you did do or were tricked into doing for the sake of your finding a cure.
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Date: 2011-06-06 12:06 am (UTC)So I told you the whole story, then.
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Date: 2011-06-06 12:28 am (UTC)[Action]
Date: 2011-06-06 04:45 am (UTC)[Because right now, he didn't. And being on a new world didn't help matters in the least. But he did had a bed to sleep in now.]
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Date: 2011-06-06 05:40 am (UTC)[Action]
Date: 2011-06-06 06:09 am (UTC)[And Zack left his sword in the mines. GDIT. :|]
What else is there to do besides babysit royalty and kill monsters?
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Date: 2011-06-06 06:47 am (UTC)[Action]
Date: 2011-06-06 06:54 am (UTC)Not really, no.