[It's an easy thing to become unnerved by. Plunging into anything far below him is not his idea of a good time and maybe one would think that Nier has had well over thirty years to come to terms with this. That said, no amount of adventuring, misadventuring, or the like is enough to make him an invincible man. In fact, he'd dare to say that his heart is actually his biggest weakness and the quickest way to get to the source of him.

Fortunately, Tifa provides both of them with a more than worthy distraction, whether she's aware of it or not. Perhaps eventually he would have come to the same conclusion himself.]

Her name is Yonah.

[That's kind of how it always begins, isn't it. All he has to do is say her name and his mind is full of her. Every laugh, every moment she's lost her temper, every time she's pleaded with him to stay, and every sliver of guilt he's experienced as a father, forced into a situation where he must either leave her behind to save her, or spend a finite number of days in her inevitably short-term life.

He could have, should have done so much better.

His words threaten to lock into his throat, but somehow he still manages to force them right out.]

She's about... fifteen, I think, now. Circumstance has kept us apart, but I never stop thinking about her. I would do anything in the world for her.