[Thanks to the advancing crystallization throughout the world, Aqures Ixen's population over the last few months had been swollen immensely by people fleeing there. Perhaps they thought that being closer to the Heroes of Light, given that AI is the central-hub for all Hero-related activity, would keep them safe until the Calamity was defeated as then surely the world would be saved. Perhaps, simply, they had no where else to run to.
Either way, as a Colonel in the Esdham military forces, often a part of Sephiroth's tour of duties was assigned to providing some extra security to those cities which had recently undergone an influx of people. Aqures Ixen is such a city, given the various threats against it and the Heroes, that required such additional personnel.
It wasn't so much the lack of his moogle that drew Sephiroth's attention to Keith; a moogle constantly in tow is the tell-tale sign of a Hero of Light, but the silent puppet that follows him around. An Engineer, for sure, and after a few blocks it's clear he doesn't know where he's going. People -Hero or civilian- seeming lost is something of a red flag.]
You seem lost-
[Behold, 6'3 of seasoned Hero, clad in the navy blue Esdham uniform with the various stripes befitting his rank on the breast of his overcoat. With silver hair scraped up back into a high tail, except the shorter bangs that frame his face, Sephiroth's practically gleaming emerald eyes peer down(?) at Keith as he's stepped out in front of the path of the patrolling solider, neither friendly nor particularly hostile for the moment.]
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Either way, as a Colonel in the Esdham military forces, often a part of Sephiroth's tour of duties was assigned to providing some extra security to those cities which had recently undergone an influx of people. Aqures Ixen is such a city, given the various threats against it and the Heroes, that required such additional personnel.
It wasn't so much the lack of his moogle that drew Sephiroth's attention to Keith; a moogle constantly in tow is the tell-tale sign of a Hero of Light, but the silent puppet that follows him around. An Engineer, for sure, and after a few blocks it's clear he doesn't know where he's going. People -Hero or civilian- seeming lost is something of a red flag.]
You seem lost-
[Behold, 6'3 of seasoned Hero, clad in the navy blue Esdham uniform with the various stripes befitting his rank on the breast of his overcoat. With silver hair scraped up back into a high tail, except the shorter bangs that frame his face, Sephiroth's practically gleaming emerald eyes peer down(?) at Keith as he's stepped out in front of the path of the patrolling solider, neither friendly nor particularly hostile for the moment.]