[At first, Aerith has no idea how Tifa might take any of that. She doesn't even know what to think when Tifa begins to laugh. After a few moments of consideration, she replays those words back, however, and eventually she starts to laugh, too.]

It is what it is. I try to overthink it sometimes and I guess I can't do that with everything.

[She leans over from where she's seated to put her cup down in favour of reaching for some of the food from the tray she's minimally prepared.]

It'd be great to think we were in control of everything, but that's not very realistic, I don't think. Besides, if we could control everything, including who we clicked with or who we didn't click with, it wouldn't be as much an adventure. We can't have the answers to everything, after all.

[The other part is that if they did know who they were going to click with, it'd be too easy to try and fight that. Even without knowing how things would go with her and Balthier, she still tried to fight it. She would have fought even harder if she'd known about it from the beginning.]