"Lifestream stuff. I don't really get it. I mean, I do, but not all of it." Cloud had more experienc of the Lifestream than most. He wouldn't have been surprised if Reeve decided to put guard rails around every place where mako bubbled to the surface just to keep Cloud from falling in, let alone some unsuspecting passerby.
"A lot's happened." Cloud looked down at the ground and suddenly wished he had something to do with his hands, or maybe that Zack was in a condition to spar. Anything but having to tell Zack that Cloud had lived the last three years without him physically there, and the reasons behind that. "You're not going to like all of it. You're probably not going to like most of it. There are things ... they're not going to be easy to hear. I wish you didn' have to hear them, but you're going to find out one way or another."