MAN: You a traveller? Hey wait, that glare in your eye... you in SOLDIER?
A woman, presumably his wife, comes around the table.
WOMAN: Oh you're right! Don't you know anything about our son?
MAN: His name is Zack.
WOMAN: It's been close to 10 years since he left for the city, saying that he
didn't want to live in the country . . .
MAN: He left saying he's going to join SOLDIER. You ever hear of a Zack in
SOLDIER?
CLOUD: Hmmm... I don't know.
Aeris looks down
AERIS: ...Zack...
Man: Young lady, you know him?
Woman: I remember he wrote us six or seven years ago saying he had a girlfriend.
Could that have been you?
Cloud turns to Aeris
AERIS: That can't . . .
She turns and leaves the house
TIFA: Zack . . .
She follows Aeris outside.
CLOUD: What happened to you two?
He follows them outside. Aeris is standing behind a house, facing a rock
CLOUD: Aeris . . .
AERIS: What a shock..... I didn't know Zack was from this town.
CLOUD: You know him?
AERIS: Didn't I tell you? He was my first love.
CLOUD: ..
AERIS: Zack... SOLDIER First Class. Same as Cloud.
CLOUD: Strange, there aren't that many who make first class, but I've never
heard of him.
AERIS: That's all right. I was just worried because I
heard he'd been missing.
CLOUD: Missing?
AERIS: I think it was 5 years ago. He went out on that job, and never came back...It's all in the past now -- He loved women..a real lady's man...He probably found someone new...
CLOUD: Poor guy...
They walk towards Tifa, who is standing by a house
TIFA: Zack...
CLOUD: Do you know him?
TIFA: N-No, I don't know him!
CLOUD: ..Your face tells me differently.
TIFA: I told you, I don't!
CLOUD: A-All right...
TIFA: .... That sounds just like you, leaving town and going to join SOLDIER.
CLOUD: There were a lot of guys like that back then...
TIFA: Yeah. You must be really something, making it in SOLDIER out of a group like
that.I really respect you...
