The next morning was much better on Tifa, but, again, no Cloud. Determined to figure out what was going on with him she set out to find him. She wandered through town, but no signs of Cloud. She asked a villager where the library was and she set off in that direction.

As she walked up the steps she began to think. What's gotten in to him? This is very… not like Cloud. As she made it to the library more questions raced through her head, the main issue was why. Why was he reading so much now? What is he reading about? Before now Tifa didn't even know he could read before this, let alone become obsessed with books.

She finally made it to the top and found the library door. Tifa open the door slowly, and just enough to see inside. Cloud was sitting there, buried in a mountain of books, he looked entranced.

Tifa opened the door all of the way, and slowly walked up behind him. She got a good look at the book he was reading. It appeared to be in an ancient language and had many charts and graphs the Tifa didn't understand.

"Cloud?" he jumped up and almost struck her, but quickly realized who she was. "What are you doing here?" Tifa was concerned and slightly frightened. She had snuck up on him several times in the past and never had he reacted like this.

"I'm reading, what's it look like" Cloud wasn't all there but he sounded irritated nonetheless. He put down his book and looked her straight in the eyes.

"Well, what are you reading?" Tifa was very worried at this point. Cloud had never acted like this.

"I'm reading…everything. I want to know if I can go back in time, or bring people back to life, or just understand the life stream." Clouds eyes were blank as he spoke; his voice was also flat and emotionless.

Tifa's eyes widened as she realized the magnitude of books in the library. "What's wrong with you? There must be thousands of books here. There is no way you can read all of them."

"If I don't leave and only sleep for a little while I think I can." He seemed almost angry, but mostly irritated. Tifa shrank down inside herself. Cloud, oh Cloud, what's going on?

Cloud, obviously not having anymore to say to her, went and retrieved his book and went back to reading. Tifa knew she had to go find Nanaki. She was pretty sure he would know how to help, or at least figure out what was going on.

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Nanaki was resting in the shade of a tree when a next to tears Tifa came running g towards him. He immediately sat up, stretched and waited for whatever Tifa had to say.

"Nanaki, have you seen Cloud today? I'm a bit worried." Her eyes were brimming with tears she fought to hold back; crying was the last thing that was needed.

"No, I haven't. Why, what's wrong?" Nanaki, having nothing but concern for the girl, wanted to help any way he could.

"He's in the library, and he's reading"

Not shocked at this tiny piece of information, Nanaki couldn't figure out why this would upset her. "What so wrong with that?"

Tifa saw the plainly confused look on the cats face and realized how stupidly she put that. "He says he wants to read everything in that library. He's really freaking me out. If you saw him you'd understand." She sat down and again tried to figure out what would motivate him to do such a thing.

"He's beginning to act like…Sephiroth." Nanaki shuddered when she mentioned his name. They both thought back to their journey, when Cloud told his story. Sephiroth hid in the mansion and read until what he learned drove him mad. Tifa did not want to see the same fate for Cloud.

"Ill go see him." Ill do anything to make you feel better. And with that he was off to see what was amiss.