[ the official report comes later. pieced together from forensic evidence scattered about the remnants of the burning village. the turk and the SOLDIER who were assigned to the mission are declared KIA, one having died fighting sephiroth while the other succumbed to injuries outside of his childhood home. cloud strife's corpse was reportedly found a few feet from that of his mother's, while Zack Fair was located within the mako reactor. Both had been dead long before the requested backup had arrived, with the Turk's corpse being burnt well beyond recognition.
it wouldn't matter if it wasn't. the turks records are scrubbed once they're gone. like they never existed at all.
so when reports come that experiments have escaped professor hojo's lab, they don't attach a name to the half-dead one that the SOLDIER is lugging around. even as he starts to become more aware, ever so slightly more certain of himself and his surroundings. midgar had been their goal right up until they'd encountered genesis and caught sight of the chopper that stopped to gather him up once he'd been defeated, now they're headed for cosmo canyon. to AVALANCHE.
cloud's suggestion. once he'd found the ability to make words. curling his fingers against zack's arm when he'd tried to make his last stand. they'd run the opposite direction, away from the fight.
( probably should've done that to begin with, zack mutters. i'm sorry essai... sebastian. )
they're camped out underground, deep enough into a cave that the fire won't show. zack's thrown a blanket over him and gone out hunting, and cloud's spent the better part of the day fading in and out of consciousness.
the sound of footfalls pulls him closer to this world than the next, and groggily, he lifts his glowing gaze ]
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Date: 2020-05-14 11:16 pm (UTC)it wouldn't matter if it wasn't. the turks records are scrubbed once they're gone. like they never existed at all.
so when reports come that experiments have escaped professor hojo's lab, they don't attach a name to the half-dead one that the SOLDIER is lugging around. even as he starts to become more aware, ever so slightly more certain of himself and his surroundings. midgar had been their goal right up until they'd encountered genesis and caught sight of the chopper that stopped to gather him up once he'd been defeated, now they're headed for cosmo canyon. to AVALANCHE.
cloud's suggestion. once he'd found the ability to make words. curling his fingers against zack's arm when he'd tried to make his last stand. they'd run the opposite direction, away from the fight.
( probably should've done that to begin with, zack mutters. i'm sorry essai... sebastian. )
they're camped out underground, deep enough into a cave that the fire won't show. zack's thrown a blanket over him and gone out hunting, and cloud's spent the better part of the day fading in and out of consciousness.
the sound of footfalls pulls him closer to this world than the next, and groggily, he lifts his glowing gaze ]