Pre-Nibelheim Fic Problem

I think I hit a snag! Wouldn't the problem with Corel have had to have happened within four years before the game's events? Barret's friend Dyne apparently talked about his daughter Marlene when it happened (since he knows all about her when Barret returns with Cloud-tachi), and after Barret thought Dyne had died, he went to get Marlene to raise as his own daughter. Marlene is four during the game, to my knowledge.

I'm now so in love with the idea of the setting, with the desert prison and all, that I'm tempted to keep it all and just change the name, if I can't use Corel. XD

I'm also planning that the prison warden will have a charge, whom he treats poorly. She'll be between 5 and 7, I think. And she'll adore both visitors, but probably especially Zack. ^^ I can just see him being so cute with kids. Sephiroth will probably feel awkward whenever she'll try to talk to him. XD She's hoping that they'll take her away from there when they leave, and that they can help her find someone kind to be her family. Though she'll probably come to wish that she could stay with Zack.

And Sephiroth now has reading glasses, too. I was writing the opening scene, of him and Zack on the train discussing the possible problems that might crop up when they arrive, and I randomly decided he would look cool with reading glasses. After he sets them down, Zack playfully takes them at one point and tries to look through them. XD He says they don't do anything for him.

Also, I'm not sure how long this fic will be, but I don't imagine too long. Should I divide it into short chapters, like my KH fic, or should it be one long oneshot? **leaning towards chapters, but isn't sure.** Even though the chapters wouldn't be long, I think it would bowl people over if I left it as a oneshot. XD Though I've done 40+ page oneshots before.