"So Rufus is quite the capable leader." She can only imagine the turmoil the company must have gone through with their once-legendary SOLDIER trying to end the world. She wouldn't have been sad if the company had become defunct, but people tended to stick to what they knew. And there were a lot of people who only knew working for Shinra.

"Have things been eventful up here?" Aerith asks suddenly. "Information in the Lifestream is...different. It's been about a year since we cured Geostigma, I know that."