"I like covering my bases, just in case." Which was true. Even though he often fought alone, and asked for trouble that way, he still had reserves of magic in case something went wrong and he had to bail himself out of trouble. "You never know when you might be alone and in trouble."

The decoration comment made him chuckle as he pointed to the corner of the living room. It was obviously fixed up from something and didn't match the rest of the house. "That, apparently, was Cloud's doing. Then the kid ran off before he could fix it, so I got left with the home improvement."

There were flowers everywhere, mostly in vases on tables, windowsills, anywhere that a spot could use a little more life. "The flowers were from Aerith." Of course, with her gone now, they were in varying stages of decay.