No, you weren't. We were the only ones you weren't running from.
[Her words are out before she can stop them, a rare bald honesty that Cissnei regrets before she's even done speaking. She can't blame him for not knowing, when they'd been too late to find him, but the memory of their desperate search to find him before the rest of Shinra could is just a little too raw for her not to react, no matter how much she keeps her feelings under wraps otherwise.
Then again, Zack always has had a knack for seeing more of her than most other people would.
She shakes her head, then, pacing away as she tries to fathom other options. No point in making him any more uncomfortable than she might already have.]
Sorry. I know you never had any way to know that. I just thought...even if you couldn't trust the rest...
[She trails off, fighting back the slight hurt in her voice. For all she'd done to protect Zack, it stings to think he would still consider her as untrustworthy as any of the others even if she can understand it.]
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[Her words are out before she can stop them, a rare bald honesty that Cissnei regrets before she's even done speaking. She can't blame him for not knowing, when they'd been too late to find him, but the memory of their desperate search to find him before the rest of Shinra could is just a little too raw for her not to react, no matter how much she keeps her feelings under wraps otherwise.
Then again, Zack always has had a knack for seeing more of her than most other people would.
She shakes her head, then, pacing away as she tries to fathom other options. No point in making him any more uncomfortable than she might already have.]
Sorry. I know you never had any way to know that. I just thought...even if you couldn't trust the rest...
[She trails off, fighting back the slight hurt in her voice. For all she'd done to protect Zack, it stings to think he would still consider her as untrustworthy as any of the others even if she can understand it.]