Re: kitchen
Oh, this was going to be fun. "You see how tired she is?" She shifted Yuffie a bit. "That's because she's out of energy. We provide the power for our spells. Materia gives us the framework, we fill it with our own strength." Cloud tried to think of how to explain it.
"Basically, we take the memory that materia gives us and makes it reality. So when we do magic, we are using our resources to do it." A shrug. "An ether or MP plus is really helpful for boosting us back up. I was pretty good at casting, though I don't need to do it so much anymore."