A few people...and more than once. [The losses weighed heavy on his heart. Too heavy to make him cry. He could just feel the emptiness where they had been.] It's bad enough when a friend dies, but even then they still watched out for me back home. But them we were reunited here...

[He doesn't elaborate. Aerith and Zack's deaths in this realm weren't ones that went unnoticed. They were both so outgoing that they left many holes in their passing.]

{Wait...Zack dies? Aerith too? His girlfriend? That was her statue. Is that why everyone was mad at Sephiroth?}

It's not sadness anymore. I got past that after the first time I lost them. I even managed to stop blaming myself. But here.... [He glanced across the room where Sephiroth was mingling with the others and ground his teeth behind closed lips.]

It can't be for nothing.