[He shakes his head at her last statement, because while it's true, and nothing like this should be possible, here they are. So much to take into consideration since Retrospec came into their lives, so many things that shouldn't be real actually existing. While Cloud cannot quite understand how this might've happened, he is quick to accept that it is merely the truth of what she can do now.
Whatever that means for her in the long run remains to be seen.]
How... how did you manage it? Was it like...
[He thinks to his recent conversation with Noctis, and what he was told about his new abilities. What a word to use, but he knows no other-]
[That seems to throw her for a loop for a minute, and it's a minute she fills by looking down at the palms of her open hands, like she's expecting to find herself holding the answer there, somehow.]
...I don't know. What is "magic", really? Something that can't be explained through reason or science?
[It's not really a question; it's more just a rhetorical thought to fill the quiet in the air, while she tries to come to grips with something that she doesn't actually want to believe, but can't deny the evidence of when it's right in front of her.]
[But it's a thought that abruptly gets cut off by the audible sound of creaking and groaning filling the air, and by the time she's whipped around in the direction of the sound, the museum has already begun to shrink where it stands.]
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Whatever that means for her in the long run remains to be seen.]
How... how did you manage it? Was it like...
[He thinks to his recent conversation with Noctis, and what he was told about his new abilities. What a word to use, but he knows no other-]
...magic?
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...I don't know. What is "magic", really? Something that can't be explained through reason or science?
[It's not really a question; it's more just a rhetorical thought to fill the quiet in the air, while she tries to come to grips with something that she doesn't actually want to believe, but can't deny the evidence of when it's right in front of her.]
Maybe. I just...decided to, and then —
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What?!