[1] Asleep or dead.

[illusoryblue.livejournal.com]

[Long silence. Cloud stands and stares around him, everything about him screaming misplacement.]

This...............I remember here. Buganhagen and his machine. But...
I wasn't there. I was looking for a store.

[He looks behind him.]

So this is where she came from. It's not...so bad. Quiet. I wonder how stars made her? Calamities. Always calamities...

I'm dreaming. But this. This isn't a dream I mind...It's only me. But what about 'The Machine'?
Peaceful. I could stay here for a thousand years. With no memory. But...home?

[Cloud stands in the stars silently, gazing at them, content.]
 

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[illusoryblue.livejournal.com]

There's worst things than ghosts...

Jenova. She was a calamity from out here...space, I mean. She's...it's hard to. Imagine, how she came from something beautiful.

[Cloud seems a little amused by her floating around him.] But I'm Cloud. Who are you?

[papillon-hante.livejournal.com]

There is much unfounded fear for us, though~.

Jenova? She was like a demon? Or an ogre? Perhaps both?

Saigyouji Yuyuko. It's a pleasure to meet you, Cloud~.

[illusoryblue.livejournal.com]

I guess.

She was. She was destruction. She...it's complicated. [body language says he doesn't want to talk about this anymore]

Nice to meet you...uh. What do you want me to call you? Just Yuyuko or...?

[papillon-hante.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I see~. [ She taps a closed fan to her lips. ]

Yuyuko is fine. Humans need not call me their princess while living~.

[illusoryblue.livejournal.com]

[Cloud looks at her quizzically while she thinks. Small smile when she decides.]

Mm. Yuyuko, then. You're a princess?

[papillon-hante.livejournal.com]

Princess of Hakugyokurou, yes. [ A pause as she remembers how many people haven't known what that was. ] The land of the dead, that is~.

[illusoryblue.livejournal.com]

The Promised Land...? Oh. Nevermind. Guess not all worlds have our...land of souls.
[slight smile.]
Mmm. Do you want me to call you Princess Yuyuko, then?