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[That aligns closer to what he expected. “Labor and investment” to facilitate comfort where familiarity could not. Shinra’s propensity to grease its shrewd business wheels and palms. There’s mild satisfaction in knowing some things remain the same, woefully so, when so much of Gaia has apparently changed in the years beyond what he knows.]

We will see, won’t we?

[A beat, and then:]

I need to know something, however.

What is it?

Did you know about Jenova before Nibelheim?

No.

[Though there is not an answer that would completely appease Sephiroth, that is the closest in this moment. If the other man isn’t strategically lying about it, or course.]

So even Shinra’s most faithful, left in the dark.

Shinra's different divisions have their own closets to bury their skeletons.

Yet that is a particularly large skeleton to keep buried between departments.

Perhaps even the foundation in which all of Shinra's closets were built on.

And yet your sense of duty to the company seems as steadfast as ever. What does that say about you, Tseng?

[Perhaps that's an unfair comparison, given that Sephiroth was far more affected by that particular Calamity-shaped skeleton hidden in Shinra's belly. But he is dissatisfied, and angry, and still wheeling in his own mind. It is hard to hold back the bite in his words.]

Edited 2020-06-27 06:19 (UTC)