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[evanescent]

[The drop in tone surprises her, makes her tense by wary instinct.]

Oh. ... An odd play to quote. It's a tragedy. Kind of overwrought, I always felt. But my mom, she loved it.

[She does not ask about the other SOLDIER. It seems wise not to press her luck.]

You know. I was wondering. Were you born in Midgar? SOLDIERs have leave too, right?

[supersoldier]

[It’s best, maybe, that she not pursue it. Genesis’ name is marked in his mind by the sting of betrayal, a friendship severed in half without so much as a warning — he would answer her questions if she pressed, but the conversation would run drier, colder.

At least ushering it along seems to dispel some of that same tension.]

Yes. And SOLDIERs have leave if they choose to take it.

[The implication being that he doesn’t.]

Many take the opportunity to see friends and family, usually.

[evanescent]

But you don't?

[Of course he wouldn't, she thinks. He thought that... thing was his mother, and that said mother was long dead. But surely someone most have raised him. The idea of a person having no home at all...]

[supersoldier]

I’ve been with Shinra for as long as I can recall.

[He isn’t hesitant to answer that question, which is so obviously fishing. Upon entry to Nibelheim, he has told the others about his mother, even briefly beginning to mention what little he knew about his father. Both gone from his life, Sephiroth harboring no true memory of either.

Still, there’s no need to delve to deep into the subject at hand, else she start treading on shakier ground — easier to just reply in a generalized manner.]

My mother died shortly after I was born, and my father was never a part of my life. [Both of these are untrue, of course, but ignorance is it’s own form of bliss.]

Shinra is, as a result, a substitute for both friends and family in my case.