falsamilitis:

    ❝I said it was fine, yeah?❞

He’d never been overly fond of repeating himself.

—But she was a child, and he couldn’t stay sour for long. 

    ❝‘Sides,❞

Cloud began, gaze shifting from the girl in order to redirect mako blues towards the rather barren landscape beyond the modest village they’d decided to take a moment of pause within. Admittedly, he was curious; and perhaps a tad concerned regarding the way he’d discovered her out by the forest, wandering and lonesome. 

    ❝You can tell me how you wound up out there on your own.❞

         _{Making the man repeat himself was likely a bad idea, but she could never be quite sure—after all, he had willingly taken her to a nearby village instead of subjecting her to walking on her own. Young she may appear, which could cause feelings of sympathy, but it took a kind person to offer as much no matter what.}

                                                      _{And she wasn’t surprised by his question.}

                                    _{Well it was less of a question, and more of a statement.}

                           _{”I had gotten lost.”}

                  _{A vague way of stating the truth, albeit in an incomplete and rather suspicious manner. After all, what child got lost in a forest that was rather far away from any civilization? But it was the most straightforward answer she could give.}