[Shadow...ah. There's a grim expression as he recalls that figure.]

...Aye, I recognized him. Wasn't expecting to see him there... Had I known I could have warned Clive, but—

[A vague gesture of his hand. He knew after however it went down, he would be in worse shape leaving it than when he entered. He just, you know, didn't expect to die the way he did. Perhaps he had wanted to wait after before telling them what he knew. Whatever the case, there was not much he could have done except as Joshua said—buy time.

However, knowing the guilt the poor boy must have, Cid gives him a soft smile.]

Don't beat yourself too much about it. I already had one foot through death's door, it wouldn't have been that much longer before I went through it. Not with how things were going.

[There's an instinctive flex of his left hand, his fingers curling with more flexibility than he's felt in a long time, the usual aches and pain completely gone. It's something that will take a while to get used to.

Especially when before he died, it was definitely almost completely gone.]