The statement about Zack earned a bit of a snort. Oh yeah. That sounded like the kid that Tseng had them scouring the wastelands for, alright.

"Guns are too easy," Reno decided. "S'why I use my baton, yo. I can smack shit around with it before ever thinkin' to bust out the materia I got in there. An' there are better potions out there, in a big way, but you gotta find 'em first. Takes a few of the basic ones to do any good, if you take enough damage."

Reno had been chugging those things for a week after that thing with the plate. He didn't want to. But he had been.