"I'm not a wizard," Zack immediately corrected. "I'm just a soldier. You don't have to be a wizard to use materia. You just need to practice."
He was a little taken aback by the different types of people she described. He'd never heard of any of this outside of fiction, the same as Susan.
"Are we getting close?" he asked, taking note of the dying sunlight and not liking the idea of leaving Susan alone on the city streets after dark. "If we are, you can just give me directions. I'm sure you had someplace else to be."