(The scene is now Nibelheim. Cloud runs out of the inn with a guard, then runs to Shinra mansion. He passes through a group of people milling outside the gate, then enters. He climbs to a bedroom on the top floor. A guard is waiting at the door.)
"There's no sign of Sephiroth, but I know I saw him go into this room..."
(Cloud enters the bedroom. He passes through a secret door in the fireplace,
down a long spiral staircase, and through a dark cave. He reaches a secret library,
where Sephiroth paces back and forth, absorbed in a book.)
Sephiroth
"....an organism that
was apparently dead, was found in a 2000 year old geological stratum."
"Professor Gast named
that organism, Jenova..."
(The camera pans up.)
Sephiroth
"X Year, X Month,
X Day. Jenova confirmed to be an Ancient..."
"X Year, X Month,
X Day. Jenova Project approved. The use of Mako Reactor 1 approved for
use..."
(Sephiroth walks down a narrow hallway lined with books. He stops and looks upwards.)
Sephiroth
"My mother's name
is Jenova... Jenova Project... Is this just a coincedence?"
(He looks downward.)
Sephiroth
"Professor Gast...
Why didn't you tell me anything? ...Why did you die?"
(Cloud leaves. The camera returns to the book-lined hallway. As Cloud speaks, we see a series of images of Sephiroth, reading. With each successive image, the bookshelves become emptier, and the stacks of books on the floor grow higher.)
Sephiroth didn't come
out of the Shinra Mansion...
He continued to read
as if he were possessed by something, and not once, did the light in the
basement go out...
phoenixgenesis@game-developer.com
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