He nearly balked at her answer, shocked at just how far behind things she really was. It'd been bad enough when Serah and Fang hadn't remembered the new world or what exactly had happened in the old one, but this was on a new level entirely. Cocoon hadn't even fallen yet, in Lightning's timeline. Hell, Serah was still in crystal stasis for her.
Snow's head was spinning. Lightning didn't know the worst of it. Didn't know what happened next. Nothing about Etro, nothing about Caius. She didn't know about Serah's death, and Snow was the last person on earth equipped to tell her that tale. Just thinking about talking about it -- especially to a Lightning who didn't already know -- made his chest feel tight.
"I was afraid you'd say something like that," he said. "Things are, uh... Different. Here."
To say the very least. Snow sort of trailed off after that, unsure of how to proceed. There were a thousand things he needed to tell her, but every single one felt like an undertaking too massive to even attempt.
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Snow's head was spinning. Lightning didn't know the worst of it. Didn't know what happened next. Nothing about Etro, nothing about Caius. She didn't know about Serah's death, and Snow was the last person on earth equipped to tell her that tale. Just thinking about talking about it -- especially to a Lightning who didn't already know -- made his chest feel tight.
"I was afraid you'd say something like that," he said. "Things are, uh... Different. Here."
To say the very least. Snow sort of trailed off after that, unsure of how to proceed. There were a thousand things he needed to tell her, but every single one felt like an undertaking too massive to even attempt.
"Maybe we should sit down."