So, from this point on, chapters are going to link with chapters in 'Buried in Snow' (Cloud's drabbles) and, on this occasion, 'Silence and Motion' (Squall/Leon's drabbles). I'll let you know exactly which chapters, but you don't have to read both to understand.
See 'Lost' in 'Silence and Motion', it's near the end.
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Yuffie.
Faded: to disappear gradually; vanish.
Perhaps it was the knowledge that the Heartless were gone for good.
Perhaps it was the fact that more people began returning to Radiant Garden.
Perhaps it was both.
Whatever the case, it seemed that everyone was somehow… lighter.
Their fears, their worries, these had gone.
Faded away.
Hopes and dreams grew unchecked by doubts.
It finally seemed realistic to believe that particular people might one day return.
It was with this belief in mind that a certain young ninja dropped her sea-salt ice-cream at the sight of a brunette woman in the square.
"Tifa!"