So the threat is revealed...
I really like both the meanings to this chapter title.
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Tifa.
Shadow: a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light; a dominant or pervasive threat, influence, or atmosphere.
She'd thought she'd helped him by telling him to reach for the light.
But she'd forgotten an important fact.
She knew what it was like to be surrounded by darkness, knew how hopeless it all was…
…how the doubts and fears in your mind began to grow…
…how the niggling, nasty thoughts that you kept to yourself, increased…
…until you forgot what was truth ……and what was lies.
That was why she's told him to look for his light.
Still, she'd forgotten something very important.
The closer you are to the light, the greater your shadow becomes.
The closer Cloud came to finding his light, the stronger and more intense his darkness would become…
…and if she appeared as the physical embodiment of Cloud's light and hope…
….then why shouldn't he appear as the physical embodiment of Cloud's darkness and despair?
…Sephiroth…
She had to find him, had to help Cloud.
She was the reason he'd got lost in the darkness, she was the reason he was reaching for the light…
…she was the reason why Sephiroth had appeared.
The closer you are to the light, the greater your shadow becomes.