[ If it's a choice between trying to escape from the phantoms and Sephiroth, she knows she'll have to try the former. If he really does have his abilities back at full strength, then she has a better chance against the shadows. Unless, of course, he's made up his mind about trying to kill her, in which case...

Dammit. Dammit! ]

Killing me isn't going to get you any closer to going back to where you came from. [ She's not going to touch the mention of Cloud or Zack with a ten-foot pole. ] And it'll keep me from trying to figure out how to get back, myself. Maybe I've got some ideas about that.

[ Maybe she's bluffing. Either way, Aerith feels the shadowy versions of her friends approaching, and stares back at the hateful, mako-infused gaze either way. ]

That isn't my fate, anyway. We fought fate, and we beat it. The world you know... That isn't going to happen.