[That name sounds like it should be something Cloud knows, something he'd remember; if he'd admired and emulated all the highest class SOLDIERs then he'd know about him, and yet...
All of this is new. Hearing that some other hack scientist was fiddling around with Jenova parts is deeply unnerving, but all of this- SOLDIERs who'd rebelled, Zack's mentor being a part of it, Zack trying so desperately to bring him back- it's all new. Zack never talks about himself. Maybe he'd never told Cloud any of this before, either.
So he listens and he does it quietly, elbows on his knees as he watches Zack pace, watches him fiddle wit his gloves, his phone. Listens to the hitch in his voice, watches the crease deepen between his brows. Commits all of it to memory.]
...Zack, I... [It's a lot, but it feels like there's something he's not getting, some reason Zack's sharing this now when he never had before.]
drinks it up
All of this is new. Hearing that some other hack scientist was fiddling around with Jenova parts is deeply unnerving, but all of this- SOLDIERs who'd rebelled, Zack's mentor being a part of it, Zack trying so desperately to bring him back- it's all new. Zack never talks about himself. Maybe he'd never told Cloud any of this before, either.
So he listens and he does it quietly, elbows on his knees as he watches Zack pace, watches him fiddle wit his gloves, his phone. Listens to the hitch in his voice, watches the crease deepen between his brows. Commits all of it to memory.]
...Zack, I... [It's a lot, but it feels like there's something he's not getting, some reason Zack's sharing this now when he never had before.]