They seemed, for all intents and purposes, to be alone again in the forest. For how long though, there was no way of telling. For all they knew the mandragora could still be lurking in any one of the nearby bushes.
The ringing in his ears hadn't stopped yet, though, and it made his breathing and hammering pulse louder to him than it probably was. It also made it a little hard to hear Lydia as she popped up and cautiously approached him. With a couple more larger breaths, Sephiroth drew himself back upright; his recovery clearly being on another level now that he had the new job equipped. Everything about SOLIDER gave a significant boost to just about every physical attribute going.
"It's-" He rolled his shoulders up and back slowly, testing the tension that was still present in his muscles there. It was loosening already - good.
"-it's working. I think it's just going to take a little to get used to...again."
He sounded almost bitter about the 'again' part, given as if he'd had it his way he wouldn't have lost the specifics of his particular state of being in the first place, however old news it was now.
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The ringing in his ears hadn't stopped yet, though, and it made his breathing and hammering pulse louder to him than it probably was. It also made it a little hard to hear Lydia as she popped up and cautiously approached him. With a couple more larger breaths, Sephiroth drew himself back upright; his recovery clearly being on another level now that he had the new job equipped. Everything about SOLIDER gave a significant boost to just about every physical attribute going.
"It's-" He rolled his shoulders up and back slowly, testing the tension that was still present in his muscles there. It was loosening already - good.
"-it's working. I think it's just going to take a little to get used to...again."
He sounded almost bitter about the 'again' part, given as if he'd had it his way he wouldn't have lost the specifics of his particular state of being in the first place, however old news it was now.