[It's pretty much what she expected when she saw his dungeon but it's still something else to hear Shinji talk about this out loud. Maybe she should have emotionally prepared herself a little better. When he shares that his mom went through the same thing she looks up at him and sees him shaking. She has an urge to hold his hand to comfort him but they barely know each other. She holds back.]

No, Haruhi was right, ours don't work that way. I'm glad, I don't know if I could keep going if I had to hear her every time we fought shadows. But...I still don't know what happened to her after we left...

[Aerith presses her lips together.]

I don't think I want to know. I don't really know what happened to Sephiroth's birth parents either. He never told me anything after we left. He...hasn't really ever talked about NERV at all. There's so much I don't know.