...I can't remember if it was my sixth birthday or my seventh where we baked that cake.
Sixth. Because the seventh one was where we couldn't... we had trouble with some of our snares getting buried in snow, and we had to spend money at the general store.
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Tifa was nine, and I was ten...
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I'm at least twenty-one, I think. Because it was five years since Nibelheim, when I was sixteen... then... some other years...?
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistI've given up remembering. With all the time travelling and all... best guess is just over 900.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?No, but — but I think I can remember.
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I was twenty-one...
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Then a year later... yeah. A year and a half. I found Denzel.
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Then I was twenty-four when Cid married Shera, because they had it a week after my birthday — they bought me all these tools. Expensive ones.
...I was — I was twenty-five when I came here. But... -Frowns in concentration-
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon Alchemist...Three months, maybe. With the King. Another two with the vampires. A month... a month or two with Tartarus. Then the desert... then Terca Lumireis. Then...
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...Then... then the city — the false city, I was there... then... then Hawthorne...? Just a few weeks... no... first, with Conception, then... then Sabé, then the labs, and...
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Twenty... six? Twenty-seven?
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-Just gives up and rests his head in his hands-
...Four thousand, I guess.
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistI remember. The same hole the Strangers found you in. And these people. Are you positive you remember nothing?
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?...I remember... things. -Clearly looks uncomfortable-
...They didn't find me in the same hole, though.
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It... it was dark. When I went through the floor. Everything was singing. I don't know how much of it was real, and The Miracle made everything... it was hard...
...but I came... I came to a tunnel. And... there were things there. I don't know what they were, I wasn't... I couldn't think by then. I ate one, I think, or maybe just part of someone... or maybe two someones, and they were small. And then the next think I knew, there was stone everywhere. Not like the hole. Tighter. Against my skin, and in my mouth and eyes...
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That's when they found me. I... I saw the sky, for just a minute, and I remembered thinking it was Aven.
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon Alchemist... You... it's not healthy for you to put so much stock in Aven.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?...He was all I had, though. For all those years... I remember, sometimes... sometimes I'd remember him saying something to me, and smiling... and I would get to think about that for a few seconds, before the voices took him away again.
...You're right, though. He's — he's gone now. I-I blew it, and I need to accept that and move on. Like... like with Zack.
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistAven is just a person. He's made mistakes.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?...
-Subject change-
Have you been careful with your name around here?
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?

Kakyoin: @The Creature: ...I'm fine. Right now, I'm drawing whatever comes to mind.
(Kakyoin shows off a sketch of a field of flowers.)