You weren’t a redhead last time! [He grins though and it’s only half-heartedly defensive.] Hey, I’m not trying to give you shit for it. Come on, gingers gotta stick together!

[And he tugs at one floppy curl. He’s a redhead too, Genesis give him a break geez… The humor bleeds out of his expression rather quickly though as she begins to explain about Sephiroth and Mako and SOLDIER. He nods but some of it goes over his head. He’d sat in on a basic chemistry class, sure, and he understood the way all living things worked on a cellular level but he was no geneticist and this mess she was mixed up in was definitely some very advanced science. Mixing cells and alien parasites that could destroy planets and…]

Over all that sounds like a really complicated and really shitty situation. But having Sephiroth here worked out in the end so that’s good. I’m glad you’re okay now. [He’s not sappy really, he’s just had way too much death around him lately and she was just one more person he couldn’t save. He still sounds a bit sappy saying though.]