[ Cloud doesn't see to laying on his back just yet, tucking up a leg with his arm resting atop his knee as he keeps a watchful eye on Ayaka by his side. This wasn't the first time he's been up here, and in all truths, it was actually quite relaxing up here. When he didn't want to be confined in his home by himself, or wasn't heading anywhere...coming up here, higher than even the little balcony to his backyard, lent itself to a better view. Now? He was looking down the street, instead of across the tracks, when the stars came out to play. And speaking of which... ]

Besides you?

[ Smooth. But he knows she's being serious, so he tilts his head back and scouts out the sky above, nary a cloud to be seen. And when he thinks long and hard about it... ]

Never really thought of that before. [ A favourite... ] Out in Nibelheim, there was no light pollution. So when you watched the stars at night, they were so big and bright.

[ As he says this, his hand reaches out, a look of calm on his face as he reminisces. ]

So close, like if you just reached out far enough...

[ You could touch them. ]