The voice made him jolt upright and left him staring at the woman across from him. She'd died here, he'd been told. So this must be the doing of the Lifestream. But was she this world's Aerith, or his?

Don't tell Cloud... So she was from this world.

He relaxed a bit, a small bittersweet smile melting slowly onto his face. The last time he'd seen her...

"Blue, like the sky," he replied once he remembered how to speak and be polite. "Are you still afraid of it?"