This question had him wondering and he searched the other's face for a minute. "You mean why I left Soldier?" Or, Zack was asking why Angeal had left him and for a minute the serious face dropped.

And he looked at the table, unsure how to communicate that. There was also that punch to the gut that he'd given Zack, ending up in the other meeting the Ancient in the church. There was an unspoken apology for that too, along with so many other unsaid things and so many regrets.

So the former Soldier sighed with a shake of his head. "There was so much going on. I wasn't...myself."