[ Lightning nods, but then just lets herself fall into silence once again. Kind of an awkward thing to respond to, but she also almost feels... disappointed about something? Like she'd wanted him to say something else too-- but what, she's not sure.
Honestly, it's hard to get her mind around just how lonely she suddenly feels with Hope gone, which is odder still when she'd been... well, not good, but okay at least in the few months before the teen had showed up here too. She frowns, looking out at the stretch of water reflecting the sun and thinking. ]
What about... you and Aerith?
[ Chances are she already knows at least a part of that story, but when it comes down to it, most of what she's heard about his past from him? Sort of came out of that one experiment a while back. The one they don't talk about much. That one. ]
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[ Lightning nods, but then just lets herself fall into silence once again. Kind of an awkward thing to respond to, but she also almost feels... disappointed about something? Like she'd wanted him to say something else too-- but what, she's not sure.
Honestly, it's hard to get her mind around just how lonely she suddenly feels with Hope gone, which is odder still when she'd been... well, not good, but okay at least in the few months before the teen had showed up here too. She frowns, looking out at the stretch of water reflecting the sun and thinking. ]
What about... you and Aerith?
[ Chances are she already knows at least a part of that story, but when it comes down to it, most of what she's heard about his past from him? Sort of came out of that one experiment a while back. The one they don't talk about much. That one. ]