Goodbye Hero - Chapter 45/? [ffvii AU - rated M]

Which Side Are You On?

Summary: Aerith tries a new thing, has many deep and troubling thoughts, followed by a couple disturbing conversations. (Also, Zack is the Best Boyfriend Ever™)

It took them another hour to reach the cliffs. Aerith’s breath was taken again: There was colour!

Grass, shrubs, trees… Even the leafy trees, stripped down to bare branches by winter, weren’t greyish-brown!

Not that there wasn’t life in Corel’s desert, but it was sparse and hidden. This was lush.

“Ohhhh,” she sighed and a tension she hadn’t even been aware of flowed out of her shoulders.

On AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/26342719/chapters/142365493

On ff.net: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13691240/45/Goodbye-Hero