I think you would have liked her. [ Which mom is this now? Ilfalna, maybe, but she's still talking about Elmyra. Still... ]

When I was little, I thought her house was a castle. She had this big, beautiful garden, and all this land... took me a while to figure out that she was well off. [ He's right to think there's a story there, but Aerith doesn't want to bog him down with a sob story about her childhood. It's much better to hear about some sort of happy adoption story. ] She was real protective of me.