[There is so much he's not saying. It isn't the time or place to bring up everything. And maybe he won't ever about certain things. Right now this is about Machina and his once-dead brother. Not even about his own feelings on the whole matter.

He lifts his head now but up towards the sky so that the rain pelts his face.]

Machina was gone. On some mission or maybe just avoiding us, I don't know. What I do know is that we couldn't afford to wait. The whole world was under attack. Monsters had come to kill everyone, the Marshal was at the head of it - no longer human. Not even l'Cie. Something worse. Nearly all of Rubrum's leaders were already dead and we were the only ones capable of stopping it. So we went without him.