[She feels so weak. She feels stupid for even coming out here in the first place. The boys were right about her—she should have listened to them when they said it was a dumb idea. Should have turned around and went back rather than cross the bridge, and not put anyone else in danger. If she had, she might not have fallen and...
Wait...
Tifa's nose crinkles as she stares at the face of the armour that carries her, the flames in the steel's reflection shimmering and glinting against her eyes, and she frowns.]
This isn't what's supposed to happen.
[Rather than an echo of it, her voice has now shifted to normal. Her twenty-year-old self forcing its way through her, and memories begin to fall into place. Memories of another city and the steel that hung over it like a canopy. Of a meteor piercing through the sky. The scrapes of metal, and the burn of something hot slicing through her chest that makes her gasp out loud for air.
All these new memories, except one. This one.]
This isn't right...
[Among the flames, visions of these new memories begin to flicker all around them, coming in and out of view as she tries to reconcile what it all means.]
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[She feels so weak. She feels stupid for even coming out here in the first place. The boys were right about her—she should have listened to them when they said it was a dumb idea. Should have turned around and went back rather than cross the bridge, and not put anyone else in danger. If she had, she might not have fallen and...
Wait...
Tifa's nose crinkles as she stares at the face of the armour that carries her, the flames in the steel's reflection shimmering and glinting against her eyes, and she frowns.]
This isn't what's supposed to happen.
[Rather than an echo of it, her voice has now shifted to normal. Her twenty-year-old self forcing its way through her, and memories begin to fall into place. Memories of another city and the steel that hung over it like a canopy. Of a meteor piercing through the sky. The scrapes of metal, and the burn of something hot slicing through her chest that makes her gasp out loud for air.
All these new memories, except one. This one.]
This isn't right...
[Among the flames, visions of these new memories begin to flicker all around them, coming in and out of view as she tries to reconcile what it all means.]