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Into the temple, and Aeris starts having visions, starting by falling down, hugging the bridge. We find the defeated Tseng (who's been felled by Sephiroth, as we discover by looking into a pool). Aeris muses that while Tseng has been an enemy to her for her whole life... at least he knew her for her whole life. And that means something in and of itself, friend or foe.

Following those bouncing guardians helps a lot; they clearly indicate where to go and offer both healing and save points, always welcome. The random encounter rate is manageable enough, and enemies go down quickly enough, that I never really lose track of where I am.

You know who does lose track of where he is? Cloud. He has visions throughout the march through the temple, with Sephiroth constantly in his head and hinting he'll always be there. Sephiroth appears and laughs maniacally and decides that he's going to be fusing himself with the planet after pulling some sort of cataclysmic event. Aeris deduces this means casting Meteor, which is granted by the Black Materia too powerful for anyone to use. As Sephiroth flies off, we deal with a rather quick boss that grants us Bahamut as materia.

Cait Sith almost redeems himself here by saying he'll fetch us the Black Materia, though his "sacrifice" winds up having him perfectly fine, so I'm not sure why the big production was needed. MEH. Well, we'll just drop him from the rotation.

As we're escaping a crumbling dungeon, we run into a second boss who's much stronger - I keep trying to get off Bahamut with Vincent, but he reduces more than half of Vincent's health with a single hit. Eventually I give up and just beat him with Aeris healing and Cloud attacking, since his HP isn't too high.

On escape, Sephiroth really hijacks Cloud's brain; he beats up Aeris and hands the Black Materia to Sephiroth. Aeris decides he's untrustworthy and wants to stop Sephiroth herself. This doesn't seem likely to end well, wherever the City of the Ancients is. We wake up in Gongaga, vowing to look for her. Barret informs us that "There ain't no getting offa this train we're on."

except now i have no idea where to go

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* The Temple of the Ancients is a pretty bad dungeon, tbh. I didn't even like the music there.

* Aeris actually does flirt with Cloud here, asking Cait Sith to read their fortune. So I guess Tifa's jealousy isn't totally misplaced.
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness