He thinks, maybe, that there was some sort of encouragement buried in there, but for a moment it's simply too baffling to sink in. The sentiment, of course, is not one he's so unfamiliar with - sure, lots of people don't like Shinra (even in his day and age).
But not a lot of them tend to call the Company "dumb," precisely. And not (or not so often) with such weirdly earnest vehemence. It strikes him dumb for a second - which is definitely the only reason she gets away with snagging that sheet of paper out from under his grasp. ]
Wh-What!? Give that back!
[ Sadly, her prize probably isn't worth the trouble; Cloud's handwriting is atrocious (and hopefully just because of the stress), and the lines are so smudged from repeated rewriting, by now, that there's little to discern. An errant "materia" there and a few "maneuver"s here show through the scratch, but even those are beginning to degrade into nonsense, without his constant repairs. ]
I mean it! [ But not enough so to... Really reach for the notes, after his initial, reflexive failure to grab them back. ]
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[ Well. That sure was... Something.
He thinks, maybe, that there was some sort of encouragement buried in there, but for a moment it's simply too baffling to sink in. The sentiment, of course, is not one he's so unfamiliar with - sure, lots of people don't like Shinra (even in his day and age).
But not a lot of them tend to call the Company "dumb," precisely. And not (or not so often) with such weirdly earnest vehemence. It strikes him dumb for a second - which is definitely the only reason she gets away with snagging that sheet of paper out from under his grasp. ]
Wh-What!? Give that back!
[ Sadly, her prize probably isn't worth the trouble; Cloud's handwriting is atrocious (and hopefully just because of the stress), and the lines are so smudged from repeated rewriting, by now, that there's little to discern. An errant "materia" there and a few "maneuver"s here show through the scratch, but even those are beginning to degrade into nonsense, without his constant repairs. ]
I mean it! [ But not enough so to... Really reach for the notes, after his initial, reflexive failure to grab them back. ]