[Cloud doesn't fault Zack for his reply. It wasn't something he could explain either, even if he tried.]

Unfortunately, no.

[His reply is accompanied by a shake of his head.]

I remember finding him at the reactor in Nibelheim. He'd gone mad and burned the whole village down. [There's a pregnant pause. It's hard to recall the events of that day in his mind, even more so having to recount it like this. He grunts, deciding that he shouldn't go into further detail.] I went up against him on my own. But I can't remember actually fighting him.

[A lump formed in his throat, imagine all sorts of scenarios on how that actually battle went down. And yet, for some reason, Sephiroth didn't kill him. That alone made was hard to believe on some days.]

All I know is that I lived somehow.