Kain was awaked to the sound of voices. He slowly got out of bed and peaked out into the infirmary, one of the rooms were crowded with people. He recognized Xu and Squall among the group and the amount of high tech equipment around the room. He walked over to Xu in growing curiosity.

"What's going on?"

Squall glanced at him and turned back around. Xu shook her head smiling and looked at Kain.

"Ellyn's getting surgery on her legs" before Kain had time to think what was so special about it Xu answered for him "her legs had to be amputated but Odine's agreed to give her metal limbs, it's the first surgery ever done. Everyone's so excited" her hair bobbed up and down as she said the word. She seemed very happy and continued looking at the crowded room. Kain doubted she could really see anything. But many voices could be heard from inside the room.

"Keep ze body still!"

"Isn't she asleep?"

"Yez but ze zurgery cauzes her body to twitch, you must keep her down!"

"I see you're finally well" the brown haired boy looked around for the friendly voice addressed to him. It was Dr. Kadowaki, perhaps the only one in the room that noticed his condition. He nodded shyly.

"That's great! You'll be the first one out today. Hopefully the others will follow shortly" She smiled at him and Kain looked around, feeling odd. The surgery had attracted a lot of students and instructors, but had anyone realized he was in the incident too?

He was certain the news had spread quickly but it was almost impossible to believe that the incident had only happened yesterday. Of course nothing had really happened to him, but he felt he would never forget the feeling of being there and the students that had been lost.

He looked at Kadowaki hesitantly motioning towards the door,

"Just take your clothes and drop by later for the rest." She told him.

Kain had already forgotten what day it was, there were obviously no classes since everyone was up and about. It seemed that wherever he went he could hear rumors and whispers of yesterday.

He sighed and headed to his dorm room, exhausted he laid down on his bed and stared at the ceiling. Just yesterday he was fighting Tonberries to get into SeeD, now it didn't matter to him at all whether he made it or not. He was the only one to survive without a scratch.

Kain turned on his side contemplating all the events. A realization came to him, he had survived the test without any big problem on his part, did that mean he was cut out for Balamb garden, the one place he lived at for as long as he could remember?

He started thinking about the nightmares he had when he woke up in the infirmary. They seemed familiar to him, like he had seen them played in a movie before, but he couldn't put his finger on it.

Eventually, Kain thought himself to sleep. He woke up to the sound of a door shutting. Slowly he got up and looked outside his room, it was his roommate, and he looked upset. He glanced at Kain and his expression changed.

"You're back…" he said astonished

Kain nodded "Yea…" he said quietly, he and his roommate didn't talk much. Kain was far too shy and quiet to make conversation while his roommate was hardly ever around to talk to.

"So tell me…H-how was it?" his tone seemed full of curiosity "What happened?"

Kain shrugged "you don't want to know"

"Yea I do!" his roommate said stomping his foot "Nicole, she was there too wasn't she?"

Kain nodded his head

"So what happened? Is she alive? I hear there was only one girl that survived"

Kain realized he didn't know who else had survived instead of himself. He just knew three others were alive, but he knew the girl that survived was the one that was crushed under the concrete at the ruins. It made perfect sense, she was getting mechanical limbs.

"No…" he finally said "I don't think she made it out on time"

His roommate didn't say a word but instead went over to his room and started opening his drawers.

"What are you doing?" Kain asked

"I'm getting out of here, everyone's freaking out and going home. They don't want to be SeeD's anymore if they're just going to end up being killed"

Kain looked at him in shock, he realized that the past few years were chaotic for anyone trying to become a SeeD, maybe now was the final straw for most students.

"Shouldn't Garden Leader Squall try to talk to us about it?" he asked trying to convince his roommate to stay.

"I don't know" his roommate said swinging a duffle bag over his shoulder, "but I'm not staying long enough to find out,"

In about ten more minutes he had packed and was ready to leave, he looked over his shoulder at Kain "Good luck man" he said and closed the door behind him. Kain was sure he'd never see him again.

"YO SQUALL!"

Squall looked over his shoulder on his way to the SeeD conference room. Zell was running after him with Rinoa on his heels. Squall diverted his eyes from her. They hadn't seen each other for a few good days.

"Squall are you alright?" Rinoa said with apparent concern in her voice

"I'm fine," he said as they reached him

"I'm glad" Rinoa said sighing with relief "You really worried me Squall. I haven't seen you in almost a week, and to find out you could have been killed yesterday…I was scared…. scared of not seeing you again" she looked at him with hurt in her eyes.

"Please don't look at me like that…I didn't mean to make you worry"

"I'm sorry," said Squall

"So man, what happened yesterday?

"I don't know…"Squall said thinking about when the first attack happened "everything happened too fast. But…" he looked at Rinoa, could he tell her there was another sorceress in control of Galbadia? "Follow Me," he said

Zell and Rinoa followed him obediently into the room where Xu, Quistis, and Nida were waiting. Zell took a seat across from Quistis while Rinoa sat next to him, Squall stood at the end of the conference table. Everyone looked at him expectantly.

"So Squall, what did you hear from Laguna?" Quistis asked, Squall sighed and started his report.