"Bits and pieces," Ino admitted, but they come together well enough to paint a picture. He knows 'bout Jenova and 'bout her having ability to control SOLDIERs and that he thinks she's probably what destroyed Midgar and crushed ShinRa. And that SOLDIER are monsters and that Jenova uses monsters to do her work for her and that some of the people who're ShinRa ain't always goin' to be--I think he's talkin' bout Cloud," and Ino was venomous at that name, "and he doesn't know what to do or what to say or how he's supposed to fit in 'cause everyone from your time freaks out and panics at the sight of him knowin' anything and he knows enough to know the end is coming. And that he's involved somehow, someway."

She would never tell Elena, though, that he'd cried under the weight of that.