When Leon got home, Seifer was spread out on his couch, his gray, dirt-covered boots hiked up on his coffee table leisurely. In his hand he held a large photo album bound in light-brown leather that had once been wrapped with a red-leather tie: a gift Leon had received from Aerith as a way for him to keep treasures from the past, as she liked to put it. (He was surprised he had put anything in it at all, because he had never had an interest in remembering the past.)

Seifer glanced up at him with interest as he shut the front door, placing his gunblade beside the entrance, as he always did. Leon could see the questions flickering in his eyes before Seifer even asked them, and he stepped closer to the young teen and peered down at the album spread over his lap, lifting a dark brown eyebrow in question.

"Who's that?" Seifer pointed to a glossy picture on the page he had open, jade eyes flickering up to Leon once more.

Leon knew the picture the moment Seifer pointed to it, and he stood up straight and looked down at the blonde, frowning to himself. "Rinoa." In the picture, Squall and Rinoa were standing side by side, surrounded by the flowerbeds that had once been lush and colorful in the marketplace. Her arm was looped through Squall's, and her bright, angelic smile was spread over her pink, soft lips, her pale face aglow in the sunlight.

Squall was smiling in the picture, too, if he remembered right.

"She your girlfriend or something?" He turned away from the blonde then, pacing calmly back toward the hallway and to his bedroom.

Seifer repeated himself, and Leon stopped where he was, his hand pressed to the wood of the doorway and his face turned just a bit so his voice could be heard.

"She's dead."

"Oh. Sorry." Before Leon could make it through the doorway, Seifer was holding the album up once more, pointing to the same picture only this time indicating the teen at Rinoa's side.

"And that's you—"

"That's Squall. He's dead, too."

He heard Seifer give off a not so quiet "oh" as he shut the bedroom door behind him.