Seeing the way Cloud struggles with the words Lazard shifts closer, lifts an arm in offering. He won't hug the younger man if he doesn't want that comfort, if it's too much. But the offer is there, if Cloud would like to lean on him. Perhaps less comforting than Zack's broad chest but... an offer all the same.
It takes him a moment to connect the dots, however. Nibelheim is the source of so much pain and even if the staff had been perfectly pleasant to him he doesn't have any particularly fond memories of the place. But there's a deeper implication there, one that Lazard has only had scraps of scrubbed documents and a hint of Genesis' mad ramblings to really bring together a picture of what actually happened. He's not sure what is accurate but... all he needs to know is that both ShinRa and Genesis, at the height of his descent, were involved.
And that it turned into Lazard having to track both Cloud and Zack down in the rebuilt manor years later.
"I'm sorry, Cloud." What else is there to really say?
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It takes him a moment to connect the dots, however. Nibelheim is the source of so much pain and even if the staff had been perfectly pleasant to him he doesn't have any particularly fond memories of the place. But there's a deeper implication there, one that Lazard has only had scraps of scrubbed documents and a hint of Genesis' mad ramblings to really bring together a picture of what actually happened. He's not sure what is accurate but... all he needs to know is that both ShinRa and Genesis, at the height of his descent, were involved.
And that it turned into Lazard having to track both Cloud and Zack down in the rebuilt manor years later.
"I'm sorry, Cloud." What else is there to really say?