[Sephiroth might have continued on, and while he had not originally meant his words in any sort of manipulative sense, he might have gone to twist it in that direction. To move the conversation away from his own past. Because just as Cloud doesn't like thinking about certain things, neither does Sephiroth. Though they haven't been fighting (with weapons) the two of them still managed to offend one another.
The subject change is actually what kept Sephiroth from continuing on about how much Cloud is afraid. The question is random enough to be jarring, and Sephiroth has roughly the same ability to hold a regular normal casual conversation as a house plant. So it kind of catches him off guard. For Cloud's sake this is probably for the best.]
... Observing the city.
[There's no smugness in his response. It is the simplest answer to give without saying that he was also kind of lost in his own thoughts before running into Cloud. He briefly considers bringing back up what they were discussing before (minus the part about himself) but that'd risk the conversation going back to places he doesn't want to go. Things were so much nicer when he could just taunt Cloud with mind control.]
The people do not know me here, so they do not notice. It makes them easy to watch. Humans are the same here as they are on Gaia.
[He could follow this up with a remark about how that's why they all need to die, but he won't. Cloud already knows his feelings so it can be implied without him even saying it all.]
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The subject change is actually what kept Sephiroth from continuing on about how much Cloud is afraid. The question is random enough to be jarring, and Sephiroth has roughly the same ability to hold a regular normal casual conversation as a house plant. So it kind of catches him off guard. For Cloud's sake this is probably for the best.]
... Observing the city.
[There's no smugness in his response. It is the simplest answer to give without saying that he was also kind of lost in his own thoughts before running into Cloud. He briefly considers bringing back up what they were discussing before (minus the part about himself) but that'd risk the conversation going back to places he doesn't want to go. Things were so much nicer when he could just taunt Cloud with mind control.]
The people do not know me here, so they do not notice. It makes them easy to watch. Humans are the same here as they are on Gaia.
[He could follow this up with a remark about how that's why they all need to die, but he won't. Cloud already knows his feelings so it can be implied without him even saying it all.]