[He'd been on the brink of waking up when Cloud calls his name, and it's the shove off the edge he needs to snap awake, take a handful of seconds first to recognize where he is, what he is, and grab the Maiden's Kiss offered to him and restore his normal form. With Cloud now armed he makes sure the Buster is in position on his back, then rushes to one of the broken windows to check outside. It's... chaos, in short. People are shouting and running from their houses, the Turks are snapping orders and vanishing down the path leading into the jungle. In the distance, smoke billows into the sky in huge dark plumes, tongues of fire flickering just above the treetops. The lights in down have all gone out: the homes, the lamps, even the store they're in has gone dark.
It's just a fire, he thinks for a moment, until it clicks-]
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It's just a fire, he thinks for a moment, until it clicks-]
Cloud- that's the reactor-