"Of course. I saw you not long ago." He knows many of the SOLDIERs in his command, and the Firsts best, especially reduced as they are in the time of the Genesis War. He knows Zack better than any others, now.

He studies their surroundings soberly as he continues his approach. It's an odd, shifting place. Yet oddly, it doesn't feel strange, no matter how unfamiliar it is. He adds, in case of some confusion, "Following the incidents at Modeoheim."

And his mind returns, as it always does (always will?) to the betrayals and deaths of his friends, that low heat of anger slowly beginning to rise, only to be pushed away again, pushed down under further pressure.