...That Cloud Strife did not survive Nibelheim. Those words stop Zack in his tracks. Briefly, there was a vice grip on his heart, all the air sucked out of his lungs. He couldn't quite comprehend Cloud not making it. If he hadn't... Then that would have been just one more person that he wouldn't have been able to save - unable to do anything for.

It didn't sit right with him. Not at all.

"And the experiments?"