Chapter Six: Crazy Introspective
After the shock had worn down some again, Sephiroth had replied that they needed to think about the proposal and talk among themselves. Vincent understood that this was his dismissal. Pushing off the wall, he walked to the door, showing off his fluid grace. His mobility had returned fully by now and he was using it all as a passive warning. He was far more dangerous than he had let on before.
Stopping before exiting, he turned slightly and looked at Sephiroth. "Do not make the mistake of deciding before you are ready. I shall be traveling somewhere and it will take me a few days. You may take that time to think."
Only waiting long enough for Sephiroth's nod of understanding, he quietly slipped out the door. Once outside, he sighed softly. He wondered if Lucretcia's cave was in the same place in this dimension, and if she was even there. For all he knew, she might not even exist.
Only one way to find out, and since he was going to go that direction anyway, why not fulfill his curiosity? He mentally snorted at the ridiculousness of his thoughts. He was going that way due to his curiosity in the first place, so that previous thought was quite redundant.
He had to wonder if being in the same room as the triplets too long could impair one's thought processes…
Snapping out of his introspective, Vincent realized that he had stood there in front of the doors for ten minutes. He really needed to work on that.
It was going to be a long walk to Nibelheim from where ever this was, so he decided to go looking for a Chocobo stable. They weren't in a town, or even on the border of one. They were on a lonely little hill overlooking a small lake.
Now he was really confused. Why didn't he recognize this lake, or the mansion that looked over it? Was this all just a big variation proclaiming the different dimension? Or had he really missed such a place on his Planet-wide walkabouts?
He really needed to gain access to a computer terminal to get the information he said he had. All that information he told the others had been what he'd gathered back in his world. Luckily, it would seem that their personal information had been the exact same. Well, except for the traitor tags. Most of them had been tagged with "Deceased" in his dimension. He added the "Traitor" tags after he'd overheard one of the Wutain men taunt Cloud and Zack during the fighting -before he'd changed into Chaos.
Great, now his mind was going around in circles. He really did need some hard facts, before his mind imploded from the sheer stupidity of it all. And the confusion, and the ridiculousness, and the crazy knife-wielding homicidal maniac running at him with a war cry…
Wait, what?