It is. That's what escape means: Always looking over your shoulder. It's better, she's discovered, to make the life she wants within the life she doesn't.

But she won't argue with Sephiroth's choice, either. It's a valid one, and one that's crossed her mind more than once.

"You're clever," she concedes. "What you should consider next, are the abilities of the ones they'll send after you."