Nel watched the little display with one raised eyebrow.

Kadaj had grown up, hadn't he? Tayuya had said he was a bit different, had discovered his independence, although that wasn't exactly how Tayuya had phrased it. It seemed to have done him good to get out of the Palace, obviously.

Out on his own, that was.

"Nice trick," she said, ignoring Szayel to come and examine the floor, "but you broke my floor." Her tone was ever so slightly scolding, but her expression wasn't. She wore a smile, and stepped nearer Kadaj to give him a concerned look. "Are you all right?" He had just had a few frightening revelations dumped on him at once, but if you looked at him thinking that he might have been used as a Shinra experiment, you could see it. You could see it in the glow of his eyes, and the eerie similarity in appearance to Sephiroth; similar eye shape, and noses, although Kadaj's face was more rounded, he was also younger, and slighter.

"Even's right, you know," she said, softly, "you should keep your room locked up."

Hojo was a whole new ball of problems for the kid. She felt sorry for him.