...Wow. Just wow. I thought that was beautiful. That's totally true, too. Sometimes the most silent things can be the deadliest. I really liked this story... I'm ashamed that I can't say anything more.

Truly lovely, like everything you do, but it's too short... it makes me feel like I'm reading poetry, even though it's prose, especially when coupled with your lyrical literate nature.

But Aw! Rufus giving up... it's UNPOSSIBLE!He does not give up, he will defeat Geostima (as so named in DoC) simply with his stare and the iron Machiavellian fist of fear and power! He rules the world with fear, no silly disease will stop him. And of course he's truly unimpressed with snow. It's not the immaculate, consummate whiteness he clothes himself with. If it comes white naturally, then it's not good white. It must be bleached, dry-cleaned, and lint-shaven before it is an acceptable form of white. I imagine he'd look nice in non-white clothes as well. Perhaps something green, nice starched cap, red-and-white armband with a swastika... you know how it goes. He'd be perfect for the HJ too, because he's Aryan. He's o completely Aryan that, were Hitler still alive, he might invite Rufus over for scones. Cheese scones. Rufus would shoot him, because he does things with money too much, and he'll ascend to the position of Fuhrer, and build a big ray to take out Austria, and the Turks would be the allies. But not the Allies. That would be Cloud, Tifa, and three fully armed nuclear submarines for the kids to ride in.

So completely relevant to what you are avoiding, yes? Unless you're doing WWI in which case, nevermind, it will be relevent to something you will no doubt avoid in the future. Nazi!Rufus is nosebleed territory. I'm sure it would please him to know that.

Bah, but cutting it short, because the last review had stuff, and both happened today. You know what I'm trying to say.

Nice. Maybe a little too short. Very.. quiet, i would say. And Rufus.. so calm and resigned. I generally like all this fics about Rufus after the fall of Shin-Ra.

Oo...Deep. I like it.