Barret suddenly began to wonder if keeping Yuffie out of the mix might be the best idea at the moment. She expressed a fair share of resistance to the idea of an alliance, she still didn't seem to happy with Barret around, and she'd feel betrayed in the sense that the condition of the alliance changed within 48 hours. He was half tempted not to bother.

Still...safety in numbers. Besides, she'd really never forgive him if he didn't tell her her leader was being threatened.

"I dunno. Guess it won't hurt to ask her. She didn't really wanna be in an alliance with you guys in the first place though, so maybe keeping her out of this might be a good idea. But I still need to let her know, since Cloud is bein' directly targeted and I'm sure she'd wanna know about it. Sure she'll wanna fuck 'em up if she gets the chance, jus' like the rest of us would like a piece of 'em."

He took a moment to sort out his memory of the night before. He didn't like thinking about it, considering certain events that transpired, "I don't know. I didn't really hear anything about it. Then again I wasn't payin' much attention either. But they do it every night, don't they? I would think they'd probably do it this comin' night too..."