[...Perhaps it's stupid, but he can't help but feel a small, quiet pang of something at Zack saying he felt his feathers. It's... not exactly to do with the idea of wings. That... wasn't even on his radar as a Very Bad Thing, as Zack had... mainly shared his anxieties, way back then, with people of the appropriate security clearance. So Cloud doesn't know.
It's more...
The idea of him changing in any sense, scared him. So much. He hates it, instinctively, just as much as the idea that he'd change bothers him.
...Is it Nibelheim that did that? Repressed memories of seeing, from his tank, everything- all of the unnatural things that were done to Zack on that table? Knowing, as the same was being done to him, that Zack could see him?
......It's a wound. One that seems to be reopening.]
You're a chimera, right?
[He doesn't know anything about those. He keeps himself to himself. He knows about what he is. Not knowing would be... well. Stupid. Also, through exposure, he knows about harpies. And vampires.
But chimarae...
Anyone else, and he'd simply say he doesn't know. But Zack's important, so...]
We could go to the coven together. They've got a library about all kinds of stuff.
no subject
It's more...
The idea of him changing in any sense, scared him. So much. He hates it, instinctively, just as much as the idea that he'd change bothers him.
...Is it Nibelheim that did that?
Repressed memories of seeing, from his tank, everything- all of the unnatural things that were done to Zack on that table? Knowing, as the same was being done to him, that Zack could see him?
......It's a wound.
One that seems to be reopening.]
You're a chimera, right?
[He doesn't know anything about those. He keeps himself to himself. He knows about what he is. Not knowing would be... well. Stupid. Also, through exposure, he knows about harpies. And vampires.
But chimarae...
Anyone else, and he'd simply say he doesn't know.
But Zack's important, so...]
We could go to the coven together. They've got a library about all kinds of stuff.
Let me go with you. I want to.