"This is a church in the Sector 5 slums."
"You suddenly fell on top of me. You really gave me quite a scare."
Scene 10
- Flowers Blooming In The Church -
...You all right?
...Can you hear me?
Cloud
".....Yeah....."
Back then... You could get by with just skinned knees.....
Cloud
"What do you mean
by 'back then'?"
What about now? Can you get up?
Cloud
".....What do you
mean by 'that time'? .....What about now?"
Don't worry about me. You just worry about yourself now.
Cloud
".....I'll give it
a try."
"Oh! He moved!"
.....How about that?
Take it slow now.
Little by little.....
"Hello, hello?"
Cloud
".....I know."
Cloud
"Hey... who are you?"
"Hello, hello!"
(The scene fades in to show Cloud lying in the middle of a flower patch in the floor of an old church. The Flower Girl from Midgar kneels next to him. She stands. Cloud manages to sit up.)
"You okay?"
"This is a church
in the Sector 5 slums."
"You suddenly fell
on top of me. You really gave me quite a scare."
Cloud
"......I came crashing
down?"
"The roof and the flower bed must have broken your fall. You're lucky."
Cloud
"Flower bed... is
this yours?"
(He stands up and brushes his clothes off.)
Cloud
"Sorry about that."
"That's all right.
The flowers here are quite resilient because this is a sacred place."
"They say you can't
grow grass and flowers in Midgar."
"But for some reason,
the flowers have no trouble blooming here."
"I love it here."
(She begins to tend to her flowers.)
".....So, we meet again."
"Don't you remember
me?"
<CHOICE>
Yeah, I remember you
Never saw you before
***Cloud
Yeah, I remember you
"Yeah, I remember..."
<CHOICE>
You were selling flowers
You're the slum drunk
***Cloud
You were selling flowers
"Oh, I"m so happy!"
"Thanks for buying
my flowers."
***Cloud
You're the slum drunk
(She makes an angry motion)
"Excuse me, but that's
really rude!"
"But I'll forgive
you, because you bought flowers from me."
<//>
***Cloud
Never saw you before
".....I guess you don't
remember. You were walking in a daze."
"But I'll forgive
you, because you bought flowers from me."
<//>
"Say, do you have any materia?"
Cloud
"Yes, some."
"Nowadays you can
find materia anywhere."
"But mine is special. It's good for absolutely nothing."
Cloud
".....good for nothing?
You probably just don't know how to use it."
"No, I do... it just
doesn't do anything."
"I feel safe just
having it. It was my mother's...."
(She looks skyward.)
"Say, I feel like talking.
Do you feel up to it?"
"After all, here we
are meeting again, right?"
<CHOICE>
I don't mind
Got nothing to talk
about
***Cloud
I don't mind
"Wait here. I've got to check my flowers. It'll be just a minute."
***Cloud
Got nothing to talk
about
(She looks sad and disappointed.)
"....oh, I see."
"Ahhh, I wonder whose
fault that is. It takes a lot to grow them, you know. Poor flowers."
<//>
(She checks her flowers.)
"Just a little longer."
"Oh!"
"Now that you mention
it....."
"We don't know each
other's names, do we?"
"My name is...."
(The PLAYER names Aerith)
"I'm Aerith, the flower girl. Nice to meet you."
Cloud
"The name's Cloud."
"Me.....? I do a little
bit of everything."
Aerith
"Oh.... a jack of
all trades."
Cloud
"Yeah, I do whatever's
needed."
(Aerith giggles.)
Cloud
"What's so funny?
What are you laughing at?"
Aerith
"Sorry..... I just..."
(They turn to see a mysterious figure in the doorway of the church....)
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