Close. [a gentle correction, but she does seem a little happy that he remembers that much.] More like what the materia is made from. It's called mako. Shinra found a way to use the lifestream to generate electricity. They built these machines called reactors that are used to extract the lifestream from the planet to create the energy fuel to power the world. When Cloud and I met, one of the reactors had just been destroyed.

[she thinks daan is smart enough to put two and two together to get that avalanche was going around destroying these things. but...she shakes her head.]

Shinra's a big threat, but they're not the biggest threat. Sephiroth is even bigger than that. [...] He was a SOLDIER once, too. But something happened five years ago to change everything. Now he wants to destroy the planet...he says it's to claim his birthright. "A dominion that shall encompass worlds unbound by fate and histories unwritten."

[she says this like she does not believe it's possible, and also like she's mad. because she is. fuck you, sephiroth.]