"I haven't, but others have," Sephiroth says. Well, he can't quite recall if it was a proper asking or more of a panicked demand on encountering their new circumstances, but he doubts the wording matters.

"I'm not dead." He's as certain of that now as he ever has been, but this time he offers a shrug and a small explanation: "I was hardly in the midst of battle when I was brought here. I was reading reports. And, whatever happened to you... You aren't dead now, are you?"