"I agree...there's something off about all of this. I don't think she's lying to us about what might happen if we try to destroy the Calamity recklessly but." Cloud frowned as he chewed over the different thoughts in his mind.

"Sacrificing ourselves like that just to stop Garland doesn't feel like the answer. And if it doesn't work then we would only make things worse." He shifted on his feet as his thoughts settled. "And if Kalki was an avatar of the Calamity and didn't know what she represented then it may have been affecting her while making her think everything was her idea."

He looked back up again, looking at Ace, "The version of her we met in the past was like a different person entirely." Time changed people, but even so...