Like Tifa and the others, Sanura had been searching for Marlene since she found Tifa alone, unconscious, in the Church. It came as a surprise to her, of course, to be sitting down with Tifa and Reno only to find Marlene burst through the door, Cloud right behind her.
"Marlene! Cloud, you found her!" Tifa was ecstatic, leaping to her feet to wrap Marlene in a hug, only to freeze in shock as the little girl pulled back, pointing to Sanura.
"Sanura...there was a woman there...who looked just like you." The statement had Reno falling off the barstool as he tried to whip around to look at the child, while Sanura's eyes widened, her hands clasping at her collarbone. "...except her eyes...her eyes were just like theirs."
"...Was that..." Sanura took a shaky breath, stepping forward to crouch down and put her hands on Marlene's shoulders. "Was that the only color they were, Marlene? Are you sure they weren't a mixture of theirs and mine?!"
"Huh?" Confusion made the child's head tilt to the side, only for her to nod. "Well, yes...why? Is she not one of them?"
Marlene got no answer, turning away to find herself enveloped in Reno's arms as tears filled her eyes.
"...Rude...take Marlene for a bit. Get her settled in." Reno murmured, Rude blinking, but extending a hand to the little girl. When the two had left, Sanura turned back to Tifa and Cloud, her eyes hard.
"They'll be coming soon. We need to have a battle plan, and we need it quick. They'll be using the children as a shield...and there's no chance...the woman...can keep them all safe if one of those lunatics does something stupid. We have to be there..."
"...the memorial." Reno whispered, his eyes wide as he realized. "That's where they'll go next! ShinRa built it, they'll assume what they're looking for is there!"
"...The woman? ...who looks just like you..." Tifa's frown suddenly deepened, her gaze snapping to Sanura. "...Aeris told us about not just you...but also a woman named Seraphina. Is that who you're talking about?! Is she on their side?!"
"...It..." Sanura's voice cracked, before she nodded. "It seems so..."
"But how can this be?! Nothing Aeris ever told us about her...nothing hinted that she could ever do anything like this, Sanura! Are they controlling her?!"
"...I don't know, Tifa...I...I don't know..."
The next day, Tifa found herself in the square surrounded by people – Sanura at her side, both women found themselves turning to find a ring of children around the monument, while Yazoo and Loz held chains connected to it – the two men were safe inside that ring. What made both pause and stare in shock was the young woman who stood just behind them, her eyes closed, hands folded at her waist over a black trench coat that hid the rest of her form from view – this trench coat was not unlike her elder brother's, which startled the women nearly as much as her presence amidst the children. Her hair was kept in a braid away from her face, but as chaos erupted and Sanura ran to the child standing beside Denzel, she glanced up to see eyes identical to Kadaj's snap open, and begin glaring at Yazoo and Loz as they let go of the chains.
Unlike the two men, when Bahamut appeared in the sky, she did not begin focusing on attack, but turned in horror to the children nearest her. They were risking the lives of these children just to destroy the monument?! They knew she had the power to do so alone!
"Kadaj..." Her voice a growl, it was the last thing Sanura heard before with Tifa, Denzel, and the child in her arms, she fled the circle – fearing for those children in the direct blast of Bahamut, but unable to carry more than one.
When she looked up again, it was to see her sister's figure stalking towards Yazoo and Loz, her hair unbound and flowing to her waist – hiding her back completely from view, though from the absence of her trench coat, Sanura suspected it had been damaged.
"Mother, schmother, it's Jenova's freaking head!" Reno muttered, brushing himself off as Rude got to his feet beside him.
"Hey!" Loz roared, only for Yazoo's much more gentle voice to cut in.
"I will not have you refer to Mother that way!"
"You meanie!" Loz grumbled, only for a much more musical voice to cut all four men off. The woman now stood immediately behind the two men who could have been her brothers, and her arms were across her chest.
"...Mother would be most displeased at your use of children that could have served her." The emptiness in her tone took Sanura aback, but as she ended her words and twisted around, first backhanding Loz, then Yazoo, to crash into Reno and Rude – who both looked very annoyed with life in general – her twin had to smile. Some things never changed. To her horror, however, she watched her sister leap into the air, and disappear.
"SERAPHINA!"