[ Standing? She was right. He shouldn't be standing. For all intents and purposes, the man she sees before her today...very well shouldn't be here at all. Not on his own, anyway. Yet with all the support he's had, and the people who have quite literally carried him, Cloud finds himself standing on his own two feet here. Standing before the woman whose spear saw him run through, unintentional or no. But standing in front of her was a wounded animal. One who hadn't been thinking or seeing clearly ever since he'd been exposed to this moonless night. Apologies, regrets, laments; they can all come after he's been dealt his punishment. But the journey he takes reaching there...may not be a pleasant one.
It's when she lifts her head, their eyes meeting as the soft glow of mako is caught within the ethereal gaze of the Raiden Shogun. If this were any other night. Any other encounter, he may have even called them beautiful. But what he's about to behold... ]
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[ From her chest... Her polearm disappears. In its stead, drawn from the wildly sparking void she manifests, is a sword. A powerful sword. One that instills something familiar in him all over again. It's the same command he felt when witnessing Sephiroth wielding the Masamune. Only now, his body in fight or flight mode, does the revelation begin dawning on him.
"People coming and going didn't mesh with the Raiden Shogun's idea of Eternity -"
Clawlike nails dig into his palm, threatening to render blood from the pressure in which he instinctually focuses on the Magic Materia slotted in his Buster Sword. He has to stop her. He has to stop her before the truth is fully realized, and the weight of his choices bears down upon him full force. Eyes wide, he swipes his hand out, as if reaching for Ei with her blade held on high. ]
Fry!
[ There's no relent in the way he casts a powerful Thundaga spell, hoping to use this as an opening upon stunning her. Yet as the attack is called down upon his would-be prey, the sound of thunder rolling through and down the empty street...
"- she's our electro archon and the ruler of - well, most of Inazuma."
Eyes visibly trembling, his body positively vibrating. ]
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[ Standing? She was right. He shouldn't be standing. For all intents and purposes, the man she sees before her today...very well shouldn't be here at all. Not on his own, anyway. Yet with all the support he's had, and the people who have quite literally carried him, Cloud finds himself standing on his own two feet here. Standing before the woman whose spear saw him run through, unintentional or no. But standing in front of her was a wounded animal. One who hadn't been thinking or seeing clearly ever since he'd been exposed to this moonless night. Apologies, regrets, laments; they can all come after he's been dealt his punishment. But the journey he takes reaching there...may not be a pleasant one.
It's when she lifts her head, their eyes meeting as the soft glow of mako is caught within the ethereal gaze of the Raiden Shogun. If this were any other night. Any other encounter, he may have even called them beautiful. But what he's about to behold... ]
?!
[ From her chest... Her polearm disappears. In its stead, drawn from the wildly sparking void she manifests, is a sword. A powerful sword. One that instills something familiar in him all over again. It's the same command he felt when witnessing Sephiroth wielding the Masamune. Only now, his body in fight or flight mode, does the revelation begin dawning on him.
"People coming and going didn't mesh with the Raiden Shogun's idea of Eternity -"
Clawlike nails dig into his palm, threatening to render blood from the pressure in which he instinctually focuses on the Magic Materia slotted in his Buster Sword. He has to stop her. He has to stop her before the truth is fully realized, and the weight of his choices bears down upon him full force. Eyes wide, he swipes his hand out, as if reaching for Ei with her blade held on high. ]
Fry!
[ There's no relent in the way he casts a powerful Thundaga spell, hoping to use this as an opening upon stunning her. Yet as the attack is called down upon his would-be prey, the sound of thunder rolling through and down the empty street...
"- she's our electro archon and the ruler of - well, most of Inazuma."
Eyes visibly trembling, his body positively vibrating. ]
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