[filling his head with garbage, what a nice way to spend his time.]

[cloud can only snort and shake his head at the mini-lecture he gets for his efforts. a different cloud might have argued this point or even done more against the status quo, but that was a different life. nowadays, cloud is a security guard with pretty terrible pay and barely managing to make ends meet.]

[he continues as he was, brushing sephiroth's hair and moving on to braiding it into a loose braid.]

And you got powers beyond those I can imagine, so why don't you do something about it?

[grappling with strands of hair, he moves his fingers deftly through. he sets it over the other's shoulder once he's done, grinning and leaning down to see if he can witness a shift in sephiroth's expression.]

What's the verdict? Getting better at it, huh.