[Spit it out, huh? That should work...even if it pulls at Lightning's grown-into subtleties.]

I'm dead, Fang. If I disappear from here, it's not because I went back to Pulse to get you and Vanille out of Cocoon.

[It's said in such an even tone that she might be lying or pulling Fang's leg except that...well, Lightning doesn't do that. Not to family. She truly believes what she's saying.]