[She can't argue that, and only nods as her expression becomes all the more somber. Hojo had seemed to wrong a number of her friends in one way or another, and it makes her wonder what else he might have done. As Zack goes on, her expression darkens, and her grip on his hand tightens.]

Zack...

[Her voice breaks, just a little. All that time he'd been gone, the letters left unanswered—]

Cloud... he never mentioned anything about that. I knew Shinra was doing experiments, I grew up in the middle of them, but—

[But that was different, because it was her, and all she knew. It wasn't someone she cared about being taken from her, never to be seen again.]

... I wish I could have done something to help you. Hojo is a monster. Do you think— maybe Cloud was so damaged by what happened that he didn't remember?