[he remembers. He'd had no idea at the time just how much that single meeting would change his life. Meeting Zack though - it was still one of the best things that has ever happened to him. Even before the mako and the madness, Zack had opened his eyes to what a real SOLDIER was like. He'd cared about a nobody like Cloud, called him a friend, made him feel important and remembered and - and like, somehow, he mattered.
And he was still humbled and honored that a man like that called him 'friend'.]
I remember.
[hoping, trying to make things easier, trying to remember to joke the way Zack so often did to ease the tension, he dryly added:]
bwwwwwwaaaaaah \o/ biffle!
[he remembers. He'd had no idea at the time just how much that single meeting would change his life. Meeting Zack though - it was still one of the best things that has ever happened to him. Even before the mako and the madness, Zack had opened his eyes to what a real SOLDIER was like. He'd cared about a nobody like Cloud, called him a friend, made him feel important and remembered and - and like, somehow, he mattered.
And he was still humbled and honored that a man like that called him 'friend'.]
I remember.
[hoping, trying to make things easier, trying to remember to joke the way Zack so often did to ease the tension, he dryly added:]
And Gongaga really is a backwater place.