Mercverse snippets. Jumps around in the timeline like whoa. It'll be placed in chronological order. The last one is sort of a big spoiler for what I have planned. The "clean" version, sans spoiler, is posted over at mercverse.

( Julian Silverberg was an arrogant prick. )

( Oh, come on, Cloud, I'm just thinking out loud. )

( I chose this. I chose you. )