"Maybe, but you were always vocal when you did notice me. Don't worry, Seifer, I don't care that you don't remember me. Because I remember you," Nida shrugged as he moved down the stairs of the porch. "Close the door behind you, okay?"

The rest of what Seifer said Nida ignored, at least until Squall's name was parroted back at him. Down on the path now he looked back, and of course up, at Seifer. There was no hiding the brief pain in his expression. Clearly he had seen it as a loss.

"Maybe he did once, but by my point in the timeline, he didn't. The war was a year ago for me, and you weren't hunted by Garden. As for Squall... he was twenty-three, and he'd been through a lot more. I don't think chains would have been his intention at all."