It doesn't elude Cloud, how Mithrun straightens up- however he is just too exhausted to do much besides retort, his filter long dead from his mind starting to fray from an entire week's sleep deprivation.

"Yeah, cause he just wants to meddle. People important to him-" Sephiroth...??? Genesis....? "Can just worry themselves. Or all of them can just back off. I'm going to survive either way."

Plagued by trauma-fueled nightmares, though.

He nearly topples backwards again. "Just. Gotta go home. I'll be fine there."

Home. Alone. To sleep fitfully, and not at all.