[Nothing interrupts Zack, as everything he says, everything he does is carefully measured versus what Sephiroth already knows or can guess at. The tire is balanced on its end and left where it is, a dusty, rubbery monolith in need of being stuck on a truck.]
You're wearing the uniform of a First. That comes with certain obligations, or as Angeal puts it, 'SOLDIER honor'. If you were an enemy you wouldn't still be wearing it; nor are you listed as one of the deserters.
[It's not past tense to him. It isn't years ago and old memory, it's a few days ago and the endless discussions that he couldn't escape from and never really tried to anyway. He still expects to be able to get his truck up and running, and return to his friends, his place in the world.]
.... But you should still be wearing purple, not black. You're not as young as your file's picture suggests you should be, and as far as I can recall this is the first time we have ever directly spoken.
[Of course he's had his hands on Zack's files, that's no surprise. Sephiroth's smile is a brief thing, a ghost of what might be an actual smile on other people, there and gone in a moment and easily imagined as never having been there at all. He spreads gloved hands a little, almost a helpless gesture. Almost.]
Based on your indignation and fury ... your age and rank, among other things, one of us doesn't belong in this time. If I had seen Portal active I'd know what to blame.
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You're wearing the uniform of a First. That comes with certain obligations, or as Angeal puts it, 'SOLDIER honor'. If you were an enemy you wouldn't still be wearing it; nor are you listed as one of the deserters.
[It's not past tense to him. It isn't years ago and old memory, it's a few days ago and the endless discussions that he couldn't escape from and never really tried to anyway. He still expects to be able to get his truck up and running, and return to his friends, his place in the world.]
.... But you should still be wearing purple, not black. You're not as young as your file's picture suggests you should be, and as far as I can recall this is the first time we have ever directly spoken.
[Of course he's had his hands on Zack's files, that's no surprise. Sephiroth's smile is a brief thing, a ghost of what might be an actual smile on other people, there and gone in a moment and easily imagined as never having been there at all. He spreads gloved hands a little, almost a helpless gesture. Almost.]
Based on your indignation and fury ... your age and rank, among other things, one of us doesn't belong in this time. If I had seen Portal active I'd know what to blame.