Back then? [ She laughs weakly, dropping one arm and using the other to grasp it around the middle. ] Well...I didn't want to be taken away from Elmyra: my mom. Those Shinra guys are pretty scary, you know?

[ Tseng had been...maybe a little better than the others, but, in the end, he was still a Turk. ]

And, maybe...because I didn't understand what was happening to me. I knew I was different, so I...felt really alone, sometimes.