Vanille just stares at him pointedly for a while, before the fight seems to drain out of her. She's tired of fighting, especially after what they've just been through. But she decides to offer one last thing before she stops pushing him.

"I know what it's like to keep a huge secret, something you don't want to talk about because it's just too painful," she says softly, her voice tinged with emotion. "You think that by ignoring it, it'll go away or stop being so bad. But it never does. Over time, the lie grows and grows. It turns into something more and even if you've convinced most people that you're okay... it's still there. One day, it'll just burst forward. Someone else takes that choice away from you or the people you care about most get hurt because of it."

She pauses for a few seconds, debating what else to say, before she finally looks back up at him. Sympathy and understanding have etched their way across her face, easy to see in her eyes and the lines in her features.

"I won't judge you. Whatever happened, I can't judge you for any of it. Not after what I've done. Just... don't be like me. Don't hold it in until you burst with the weight of it."

Of all the people present here right now, Vanille is one who cares the most. She feels with her entire heart and she has been through enough to know what those lies and moments of telling herself she was fine turned into. She doesn't want the same to happen to Seifer.