So when I disappeared, like people said I did ... No. I don't believe that. Maybe we were here for a while, but the things we remember outside of this place ... We were home. We had to be.
[If Cloud's taking this hard, it's because of his past experiences, being locked away and made subject to someone else's whims to the point that he lost all self-determination, even sanity for a time. That taken into consideration, he's doing a decent job of keeping himself together.]