[yeah this tracks, i'm gonna hang this man upside down and shake him. it's okay, aerith is simply going to just ignore him being contradictory because she's had enough of this bullshit from cloud, too. you learn to pick and choose what you want to believe.

for the rest, she smiles a little before looking at the plate. that should be enough for now, she thinks, so she gestures for him to follow so they can pick some flowers.]

It's true. [she's aware how she comes off. she's fully aware she comes off as bubbly and friendly and overly chatty by nature because...well, she is. but that doesn't mean much when you don't get a lot of chances to engage with the outside world, and when you know you're extremely different from everyone around you and it leaves you alone so often. she doesn't continue immediately as they walk, as if she's formulating how to say this.] ...I didn't really have the same experiences as other people when I was little. I didn't get to make friends or talk to many other people until I was older. There were people I knew around the sector, but nobody I really could consider someone I was close to. So maybe I'm trying to make up for all of that now. But even now...sometimes I say the wrong thing, or I ask questions that're selfish ones because I didn't think of how it'd make someone else feel. I don't always think about how the things I want could be something that could hurt somebody else.