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Who: cloud strife & zack fair
When: early september.
Where: the coven!
What: bonding! between monsters! what can go wrong.
Warnings: none.

[What had been agreed, had been agreed hastily, as some form of prevention for a repeat of what happened the month before. What happened the month before, of course, being Zack going feral. Sephiroth, apparently, had been around to prevent things from being as bad as they could've been (Yeah. He still needs to talk to him about that...) but... yeah. here they were.

Except that's not really it. Partially it, sure. But not quite all of it. Not really. He'd agreed to this before Zack showed any signs of his condition overtaking him. Offered it freely. ...Even wanted it, in a larger respect than what he really understood. And they're here.

As Cloud lingers in the doorway of their shared house, made all the bigger, all the more vacant via both a missing housemate and one that couldn't tolerate the sun, he waits for the other man in the porchway, quietly just kind of... appreciating how the sun feels on his face. It'd been a while, after all.

And when Zack comes out of the doorway to join him...]

You good?

[A few steps down from the porch and onto the dirt road.]

You wanna back out, M'not gonna be sore about it.

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[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.

[ What Cloud has to say isn't much of a surprise to Zack. Even the detail about Sephiroth having the same idea doesn't shock him much. He would never go so far to say that Cloud and Sephiroth are anything alike, but soldiers think a certain way, don't they?

At the offer, Zack sighs and waves Cloud off. ]

Doubt it'd lead to anything different. I might have a cute face, but if Sephiroth wasn't able to intimidate them into saying anything, I don't think I'll be able to charm 'em into it.

[ It's a frustrating result, but if they want answers, they'll need to find some other way to get them. Maybe by finding others who are distrustful of the Coven, whether Mirrorbound or not, and questioning them.

A pause, and then Zack shrugs and nods to the building looming ahead of them. ]

So, you gonna stop stalling now?

[ It's time to get platonically married! ]