Huh... not really. But if you tell me the neighbourhood, I can at least take you there.
[If Sephiroth doesn't get to know where he lives - which, fair, honestly he'd rather the kid not end up accidentally lurking around where Cloud and Aerith take shelter - he's fine with not getting an address in return to keep the playing field even. Whichever Sephiroth chooses is fine.]
[As long as Aerith and Cloud didn't show up at his house, it's probably fine. In turn he really, REALLY doesn't plan on going anywhere nearer Gram than the train station unless it's some dire emergency, but his only real objections would be everyone knowing where he lives.
Zack is probably fine knowing. It wasn't like he was going to be constantly dropping by, and thus potentially luring Cloud to see where he's going.]
Oh, Lapine. The Burrows, not far from the river. It's not a bad place, people leave you alone.
[For the most part. There was an endless parade of spirits that realized he's living there by himself and 'just happen' to make too much of this or that and he'd be doing them such a favor if he just took it off their hands..]
Zack laughs, turning down the road towards Lapine and taking a more leisurely pace this time so they're not completely drowned by the engine.]
I grew up in a jungle! Plenty of mucky swamps, there. You'd be amazed where people will live. ...Lapine does sound real nice, though. Any time I pass through, it looks cozy.
[Also the swamps around Gongaga are way nicer than Exile, but anyway.]
[Wait no there were other towns and villages out there. Mideel kind of was hot wasn't it? He'd never been.
Rhadore was completely tropical, but that wasn't likely at all. Lapine is nice, and not at all swampy, and he really can't.. guess what it would be like growing up in a jungle. Or. Anywhere but a lab.]
[It didn't stop one of the Turks! .. That had to be some loyalty on Tseng's part. He shakes his head; Gongaga is too small and inconsequential for him to have been told about so far. Eventually it'd come up, every town with a reactor would.]
I .. don't really have an opinion on mushrooms. They exist.
[He didn't encounter them enough. Especially not giant ones.]
They're supposed to be healthy to eat. Were you glad to leave? Not.. friends and family, but the climate.
[Zack probably doesn't even know that. Never asked, was never told...
He laughs at Sephiroth's answer, the sound carrying well in the wind. Mushrooms sure do exist.]
I dunno! I didn't hate it or anything, it's just all I ever knew. I like being warm more than cold. Didn't miss getting lost in the woods, though. Or the frogs.
[No sooner does he ask that his expression settles into annoyance behind Zack's back. As soon as he takes more than a moment to think about it, he knows why.]
They're monster frogs aren't they. Are there monster mushrooms too.
Of course. [Everything is either completely harmless or a monster and there is no inbetween at all. Everywhere was the same thing, and yet somehow he hadn't really thought of ordinary cute little treefrogs or something being dangerous.
Leave it to the Planet to find a way.]
That's not how they reproduce is it? Pow, you're a frog, no need for tadpoles, every frog you meet might have been a person at some point and now they're amphibian martial artists.
Oh, wow, I never thought of that. There were people who disappeared into the woods and never came back, so maybe... you don't get their powers, though. If you punch somebody as a frog, you can't change them into another one.
[That would have caused so many more problems, if that were the case. Thankfully when you're a frog you remember you were once a person.]
Being a frog's like- everything's so huge! And wet. And sticky. Walking on two legs when they bend like a frog's do is so weird, too.
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[If Sephiroth doesn't get to know where he lives - which, fair, honestly he'd rather the kid not end up accidentally lurking around where Cloud and Aerith take shelter - he's fine with not getting an address in return to keep the playing field even. Whichever Sephiroth chooses is fine.]
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Zack is probably fine knowing. It wasn't like he was going to be constantly dropping by, and thus potentially luring Cloud to see where he's going.]
Oh, Lapine. The Burrows, not far from the river. It's not a bad place, people leave you alone.
[For the most part. There was an endless parade of spirits that realized he's living there by himself and 'just happen' to make too much of this or that and he'd be doing them such a favor if he just took it off their hands..]
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[He's not sure the tires could handle deep snow or swamp. But otherwise...!]
You like it there?
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[Who would willingly live in a swamp?? Lapine is plenty nice enough.]
.... Yeah. It's not as advanced as Midgar but it's.. got other nice things.
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Zack laughs, turning down the road towards Lapine and taking a more leisurely pace this time so they're not completely drowned by the engine.]
I grew up in a jungle! Plenty of mucky swamps, there. You'd be amazed where people will live. ...Lapine does sound real nice, though. Any time I pass through, it looks cozy.
[Also the swamps around Gongaga are way nicer than Exile, but anyway.]
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[Wait no there were other towns and villages out there. Mideel kind of was hot wasn't it? He'd never been.
Rhadore was completely tropical, but that wasn't likely at all. Lapine is nice, and not at all swampy, and he really can't.. guess what it would be like growing up in a jungle. Or. Anywhere but a lab.]
..What was it like?
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[That would've made his involvement in the war pretty awkward.]
Ever heard of Gongaga? [He's expecting not.] It's humid most of the time. Pretty wet and squishy. Tons of mushrooms. You like mushrooms?
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I .. don't really have an opinion on mushrooms. They exist.
[He didn't encounter them enough. Especially not giant ones.]
They're supposed to be healthy to eat. Were you glad to leave? Not.. friends and family, but the climate.
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He laughs at Sephiroth's answer, the sound carrying well in the wind. Mushrooms sure do exist.]
I dunno! I didn't hate it or anything, it's just all I ever knew. I like being warm more than cold. Didn't miss getting lost in the woods, though. Or the frogs.
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[No sooner does he ask that his expression settles into annoyance behind Zack's back. As soon as he takes more than a moment to think about it, he knows why.]
They're monster frogs aren't they. Are there monster mushrooms too.
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[Even Midgar has weird monsters, formed from normal animals, inanimate objects... it's the world they live in.]
The frogs are kind of the worst, though. If they punch you, you turn into one yourself!
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Leave it to the Planet to find a way.]
That's not how they reproduce is it? Pow, you're a frog, no need for tadpoles, every frog you meet might have been a person at some point and now they're amphibian martial artists.
[And now he's thinking about it.]
I wonder what it's like to be a frog.
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[That would have caused so many more problems, if that were the case. Thankfully when you're a frog you remember you were once a person.]
Being a frog's like- everything's so huge! And wet. And sticky. Walking on two legs when they bend like a frog's do is so weird, too.