[Shinra should be held accountable, he says, and she feels a flutter of relief at it. Just Shinra. Not the Planet, not everyone on it. It's a response that is logical, despite the confusion and grief he must be feeling. It was a good sign. She's still cautious though, ruminating over what to say and how to say it.]

The official story was that you'd died while on the mission. The truth is that Cloud confronted you in Nibelheim's mako reactor. I'm not sure how he managed it, but he overpowered you, and you were thrown into the Lifestream.

Usually, when someone returns to the Planet, they become a part of its life cycle. Their individual consciousness... it disappears. But you managed to retain your consciousness, and traveled through the Lifestream until your... Reunion. What was left of your body was encased at the farthest reaches of the Planet, the Northern Crater, where Jenova once fell from the sky. When you had the Black Materia, you summoned Meteor. And if Meteor were to fall, it would create a wound in the Planet so great that Lifestream would gather there, and your body would absorb it. But the Planet, and everything on it...

[She trails off to look up at him, her expression pained.]

I told you it was a terrible story.