Once the Sierra had landed in Edge, Cloud took Rena around his home. She had met Marlene before, but not Denzel. There was something about the child… she couldn't put her finger on it. He was special, she knew that. Rena's senses always seemed more advanced than anyone else's. People thought it was constant exposure to Materia from a young age.
Cloud had asked Rena to help out in the tavern. She agreed, and refused any pay whatsoever. After introductions and everything had been concluded, Cloud sat Rena down in his small living room.
'Rena… how did you come to be friends with… him?' he asked her nervously.
'Hmm. Let's see,' Rena thought for a moment.
'I was in Edge on a Materia deal for Father. Some really mysterious client, he wouldn't let me see his face. Quite creepy, really. Anyway, the office where the client worked was three doors down from the warehouse that Sephiroth emerged from.
'I was just coming out of the office after the deal, when someone screamed and I was knocked over. When I got up, people were running in all directions. I pushed through to see the source of the commotion, and that's where I saw him. My first instinct was surprise, and then curiosity–' Rena was cut short as Cloud interrupted.
'You see the man who killed your mother and best friend is standing unarmed in the middle of a city, and you don't feel anger or rage?' he asked incredulously. Rena smiled and shook her head.
'Nope. I don't know, I just didn't. Let me go on. He was just standing there, looking bewildered, so I approached him. He seemed to recognize me, although we had never met. I asked him what he was doing here, and wasn't he dead? He only shrugged and asked me where he was.
'I told him this was Edge, a new city just out of Midgar. By this time, havoc was being wreaked amongst the civilians, and I figured something bad would happen sooner or later. Some crazed AVALANCE fan or something. Or you.
'I called Rufus and told him to send someone quickly. I was sure he didn't believe me, but he knew I was your sister so he figured I must be telling the truth. Sure enough, in just a couple of minutes, there was the Shinra helicopter and the Turks.
'Reno took me aside and asked me if I was alright. He was acting all funny, but I was getting impatient so I brushed him aside and went up to Tseng. He had the same kind of infuriated gleam in his eye as you do whenever you see Sephiroth, so Rude was keeping a close watch on him.
'Elena was talking quietly to Sephiroth and holding a gun to his back as she led him to the helicopter. He seemed quite attentive and pleasant, actually. I asked Tseng what would happen to him, but Tseng seemed to have trouble talking so Reno told me that they would just run some experiments and things like that on him to start with.
'Just before Sephiroth entered the helicopter, he looked back and smiled at me, stating that he would like to see me again. I told him it may happen. A few days after that I visited Healin to see how he was doing, and we got to talking.
'I realized that he had definitely changed and we discussed everything that had happened since Nibelheim. After that, I don't know… I guess we just became friends,' explained Rena.