For the time being his own cool drink of water was forgotten, the condensation climbing up the sides of the glass as it rested still on the top of the ornate table between them. Sephiroth was much too focused on attempting to will Terra to understand and then, logically, change her mind and make to leave the City before it was too late.

He couldn't get his head around why she had put her word to such an obviously dangerous request in the first place, which just stirred unkind thoughts toward Jessie for requesting that Terra stay behind and holding a new job to ransom for it. Misguided as he might be, he did not see Terra as a fighter at all, and to force someone into such a situation was not acceptable either.

How Jessie did not get the same impression? Had she done that on purpose? None of those questions were helpful given the fact that Sephiroth didn't have the time to go asking - he'd come by on his way back to the airport only.

So he nodded slowly, communicating the heavy consequences associated with that. "If popular belief is to be verified, the Empire has reached the conclusion that we are too dangerous to be tolerated now. If true, I have no doubt that they might accept to level all of Aqures in order to see their objective fulfilled."

He took a breath, and continued after a few long moments discreetly chewing at the inside corner of his mouth. As if it might help to curb that sharp concern over her well being that he didn't even know why he felt so much.

"You can't stay here."