[Cloud's memory of a lot of things before his mako dips has gotten foggy and blurry. Tifa couldn't put him back together in places she didn't know and he's still trying to sort out what's him and what's not from those times. But even if his memories were crystal clear, he wouldn't equate the man in front of him with the OHMYGODI'MGONNADIE! looming, dark, overwhelming nightmare snapshot his teenage mind was kind enough to take for him during that a very brief and decisive meeting in Modeoheim with. Jump out of his closet one night, it might remind him.

That chuckle loosens Cloud up though because it's impossible not to chuckle when talking about Zack sometimes and there might be the slightest easing up around his lips.]

Mostly it was about dreams and honor. [and tiny, nobody Cloud had eaten it up too. Fact of the matter, he probably still would just because it would be Zack saying it.] And maybe the honor of dreams when he was tired. It was easy to see the words were important to him.