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[ Angeal still had been very human and always would be in his eyes. Nothing could have changed Zack's mind in the end. Even with the betrayal.

Still, Zack doesn't feel like an amazing friend. Not at all. Not with Angeal. In the end, he couldn't save him. Maybe Angeal had felt different, but that didn't change Zack's perspective. So, honestly, Al saying that puts a weight on him and he debates on protesting--

but that thought never reaches his voice when he hears Al speak and then suddenly cut himself off. Cut himself off and then he's... talking again and wait, what's this about getting his original-

.....

...........

There's nothing but shallow breath on this end for a long minute. He had been expecting maybe some mutilated fifteen year old staring back at him. In a darker sense, perhaps even something closer to the overexposed monsters in the reactor core at Nibelheim if he really took the time to overthink.

But he wasn't expecting... nothing. ]