Whether or not Zelda found it unnerving wouldn't make any difference to the green fire that simmered around the edges of contracted slits. Sephiroth always had been intense in his bearing, intimidating to the point of nearly being off putting in his demeanor -the difference now being he didn't have the history to back it up in this new Realm. Always and forever with the attention to details, and now Zelda had sparked his intrigue.

"You could have fooled me." It was hard to place what he meant by that remark and the following huff of breath, entirely intentional in its expression of course considering his conscience were still tumbling as if in a vortex and not knowing which was the right way up. "Heroism isn't really something that you aim for."

Well, at least his second comment sounded just a touch more positive.