She frowns, and quotes Beryl despite hating the so-called queen and resenting so many of her words. "None of us are exactly as we were."

"The similarities are thin." She won't acknowledge herself as that girl who might have grown up to be good and pure and kind, who might have had a happy life as a doctor with friends supporting her from across the world.

She doesn't believe in that future. That girl was incapable of handling what was coming.

But she gives Cloud this, this one tiny admission: "However, I remember the dream."