Something in that makes Sephiroth stop, one hand on the door of another vehicle to test for doors. When he turns back to Zack, there's really no mistaking that the other SOLDIER has, for the moment, his complete and undivided attention.

It's not always a comfortable regard. "I don't know. All ideas of timelines, of different worlds and travel between realities is ... nothing but stories until now." Worthy of scorn at best, childish entertainment and escapism, not sharp reality. But this was reality now, and it included different times and different planets. There's no saving things for us sounds a lot like there's no saving us and that didn't bode well for the intervening years.

It sounded like defeat. It all sounded like defeat. That wasn't acceptable. "I won't know until I try. And I intend to."