Red XIII slowly came down the stairs of the inn. The rest of the group was waiting by at the bottom of the stairs. Tifa quickly advanced forward. "Well?" She prompted. Red XIII shrugged a little. "As I said before, it isn’t a normal slumber. I checked their eyelids. Both of them certainly are not taking a light snooze, I can say that much." He slowly looked around. "If it goes like this, they might never be able to locate their body. They might never wake up." He said gravely.

Tifa sucked in her breath. "I don’t know what you are saying, Red. What is going on?" She asked in a trembling voice. "Nothing happened back there. If there was a problem, it was on Cloud. He had lost his control again. But how come Aeris is in that state?"

Barret put his hand on her shoulder but she shook it off. "Tell me!" She cried.

"Tifa!"

"No, I won’t stop!" Tifa shouted, unable to stop the tears. "It feels almost like years now! I was always afraid that this kind of thing would happen. When I am with Cloud, I was always afraid." She said in deep emotion. "I was always afraid that he would run away, leave me behind and never return! Sure, I laugh and I talk jokes and stuff, but you don’t know what I always had in my heart!" Yuffie and Cid lowered their heads.

"To me, it’s like having a bomb at the pit of my stomach… continuing to tick…tick…tick…"Tifa’s voice trailed off, leaving the hollowness behind. She slowly started to weep softly, covering her face.

"…and goes ‘kaboom’, huh?" Someone spoke up softly. Surprised, Tifa looked up. Everyone turned to the direction of the voice. Vincent seemed perfectly at ease even when the situation was quite hopeless. "What? Were you expecting something less dramatic?" He asked.

There was no mocking in his voice. It was just a deep voice that somehow calmed the hearts of people. Since it was him who spoke up, everyone was quite amazed and remained silent.

"If that’s the situation, then I advice you to let it explode." He continued. His sharp gaze stayed on Tifa for a while. "But not now. It’s not over yet. At least, not in my book."

"Then…" Barret felt a little foam of hope building inside. "You mean you know the way?"

Vincent shook his head. "I don’t know it."

Yuffie pouted. "Then why are you acting so big?"

Vincent regarded her in an odd expression. "Because I know where to start looking." He said.

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