Maybe not entirely unnoticed, that salute of Cloud's. After all, it was Reno's job to notice things, and in a situation like this, he was going to do his best to keep an eye on as many people as he possibly could. Well, with the possible exception of the kid - he looked a bit over-awed as it was.

Not that he wouldn't keep an eye on him too, of course. It was just that he'd put him at a lower priority than say, Sephiroth.

"Last time, it took a pretty damn sizable force to keep you down, if I remember right. An' we ain't got quite what we had before, yo." At least not entirely - and he'd rather not see the destruction that would likely be caused if the man lost his grip on sanity again.

"An' it's a little hard to eliminate whatever imbalanced him if we ain't got a clue what did the trick the last time, yo."