Who knows how long he would have stood there if not for the fact that he light shove on the shoulder snapped him back into focus and he quickly looked to who had done it. She wasn't someone he recognized, but her laugh made Cloud give a mixture of a verbal "Huh?" mixed with a "Wha-?" He blinked a few times to fully digest what she just said.

"Another...?"

In his momentary pause he reflected on the fact that who she was referring to, his old friend who had died trying to save them both. Along with the possibility that he might be alive. Others who have died were drawing breath now, how could it be so far fetched that he hadn't been as well.

"Zack?" he blurted out suddenly. "Zack's back?!"