"I'm the same." Aerith had understood that her fate was connected with Gaia's. She hadn't expected to live to see old age or even all of the years that lead up to it.

"She was beautiful." she looks shy, and a little pleased, by the compliment, "They experimented on her...too much. When we were free, she couldn't..." her throat tightens, "Anyway, she chose my adoptive mother. We never really got away. Shinra knew where we were. Where I was."