Fade in. The girl lies in a bed, with an elderly man standing nearby. 1-3 "Awakening" plays.

It's still unclear what exactly the object is, other than that it's ring-shaped. The kanji 輪, which is all the text gives us to go on here, is used in words for jewelry from finger rings and bracelets to chokers and nose rings, and for many other more general types of ring-shaped objects from rubber bands to landing gear. Going by the appearance, considering what would be practical, and remembering that Wedge mentioned her head, it's most likely a circlet of some kind.

She shakes her head, probably in confusion.

At this point, everything fades to black, except the girl, who shifts to center screen. The game gives the following brief description of her, then allows the player to change her name if desired. The same sort of thing happens with most playable characters.

Note that names in the English version are by default ALL CAPS. This was probably done to match all the other names and identifiers that are given in ALL CAPS before characters' lines (like OLD MAN), but it's not aesthetically pleasing to see an ALL-CAPS name in the middle of a normal-case sentence. In contrast, fixed names (the ones the player can't change) do appear in normal case in the middle of sentences. So why didn't they just make everything normal case all the time? I hardly think it would have ruined the game to identify a speaker as Old Man instead of OLD MAN. A poor decision overall in my opinion, but fortunately not one that damages the meaning.

Meanwhile, guards with dogs come up to the house from outside.

Here we see the sort of textbox that led to my including a colon at the beginning of the lines with 「 in the JP version that have unidentified speakers. Note that it's clear in the original that at least two people are speaking in each block of text, but this is completely lost in the NA version. Though it doesn't make much of a difference here, leaving out the differentiation elsewhere often confuses who says what in places where it's more meaningful, typically leading to misattribution (like who it was that used to have a pet turtle) or muddled dialog that's difficult to parse at all.

For a while, I put such text in quotation marks, but decided that should be reserved for generic party member lines, denoted with the 『 mark in Japanese. My use of a colon for a lone 「 parallels the standard use of, to give an example, "Old Man:" for 老人「 in Japanese.

Speaking of character names and how they display, when a character is speaking, the Japanese version normally displays their name in halfwidth, rather than the standard fullwidth, kana, so the young woman is shown here as ﾃｨﾅ instead of ティナ.

Two Sleeping Bags are added to your inventory at this point. The nearby clock, like many others, contains an Elixir for no apparent reason.

Tina leaves through the back door. "The Mines of Narshe" plays. Some guards spot her going across a walkway.

Skip the treasures in the mines for now. If unopened, the chests will contain markedly better items... much later.

Tina fights alone and only lightly armed in the mines, but she's no pushover and has little difficulty until guards rush in from several directions and corner her.

Actually, it's literally "[She] was [here]", but that's awkward at best in English. Just one of those Japanese idioms.

The floor beneath Tina caves in, and she loses consciousness soon after falling.

Everything appears in sepia tones as Tina sits in the center of a small, apparently hi-tech, room. An unfamiliar man stands nearby, frequently laughing. 2-13 "The Empire "Gestahl"", a somber militaristic track, plays.

"Cefca" is, apparently, the official JP version spelling, though I've never seen it anywhere in the game itself. Those are hard 'c's, so it is pronounced "Kefka", as it's spelled in the NA version.

I can't say I don't like the way the NA version makes him sound unhinged right away... actually, I'm thinking the original may do the same; it at least makes him sound cocky. Not just anyone will refer to himself with the incredibly arrogant term 俺様 (ore-sama). In any case, he's infamous for his deranged laughter. The game even has a deranged laughing sound effect for him.

The following line exists in the ROM and fits here, but isn't used in either version.

Cut to a battlefield. Tina, riding a mech, vaporizes a Soldier effortlessly.

Cut to what looks like a rallying speech that wouldn't be out of place in Nazi Germany. An important-looking man stands in front of a crowd. Behind him, an unidentified man and woman, along with with Cefca, lead cheers. Tina, standing next to a mech, looks on passively.

Some interesting changes here. ガストラ (GASUTORA) doesn't much resemble "Gestahl". The original indicates that his "major breakthrough" has already happened, not that it will soon occur, and there are also changes to several other nuances.

This also brings us to one more minor note about name display in the Japanese version. The game font combines dakuten ( ゛) and handakuten ( ゜) marks with the base kana in halfwidth text. Standard fonts don't do that, so, as seen above, I'm forced to present halfwidth ガ as ｶ and ﾞ next to each other, for example.

The following line comes here in the ROM, but isn't used in either version. Heck, Cid doesn't even appear in the scene.

The scene fades, the music fades, color returns... and Tina remains unconscious on the cave floor.