[ For a moment, all she can really do is stand there, mouth agape, and her eyes wide. A year— eight months felt long enough, but to be gone for a whole year, maybe more? Granted, maybe the years are shorter in the places he came from, she wouldn’t know, but still— ]

That’s a very long time… But I guess it’s good that time passed as normal, here, or else a lot of people would be missing you.

[ Yup, all of them, missing him equally as much, since it’s not like he has someone special or anything, right?

She’s so caught up in that time dilation that she nearly misses him asking about her and Tifa’s conversation. ]

Huh? Oh— I was telling her about how eight months passed for me at home, and she mentioned that something similar had happened to you… Although come to think of it, she’s mentioned this “Camelot” place, before… Another world that you two were in, right?