[To the both of them, 'need-to-know' is it's own hell. To Cloud, it's disconcerting just how many of the people that were brought in seem to have taken it in their stride. Does that mean that it's just them that have a problem with all of it? ...Or is it something else?

Who knows.
But that's not the point.]

Tried already.

[He responds, in a manner that could very well be considered quite flat.]

Me and Sephiroth arrived about the same time. Both had the same idea before we even knew each other was here. Both of us got nowhere.

[ Normally, he'd leave that as that (as defeatist as it is.) But, since he's speaking with Zack...]

...Could always try again.