Pangs of sympathy wrenched at Snow's heart at the look on Lightning's face. He hated having to dump all of this on her -- the abbreviated footnoted version of it, no less -- but the sooner he got her up to speed, the better. If anyone could make heads or tails of this and figure a way out of this shitty situation they'd all been dragged into, it was Lightning. It didn't matter where on the timeline she was from.

"You saw it, didn't you?" he asked. "In the square? The Crystal of Fire."

Not for the first time, he wished Serah was with him for this.