[ It's strangely relieving finding out that Rufus hasn't been here long. The idea of an unknown Shinra presence lurking even here is unsettling - for lots of reasons. ]

Me? I guess a couple of months if I'm counting right. There are other people from home here too - Tifa and Zack.

[ She has no idea how well Rufus knows either of them, but Tifa had been on the roof the night he fought Cloud, and, well, Zack was a former employee, wasn't he? ]