Cid, meanwhile, had been heading back to his shop when the domes had started crumbling and while he wouldn't have been at all surprised to find that his earlier actions had made things easier he wasn't about to leave his things behind. If the shop got ruined then it wasn't any skin off his back, but that was where he'd been keeping his things as well. And the less he had to dig through the rubble for those, all the better.

Still, he had to admit to being surprised to find Alice there, much less finding her apparently unconcerned about anything.

"The hell are you doing here? The damned city's falling apart!"