[ nice foreshadowing, sasuke. tseng simply nods, accepting that at some point in the not-so-distant future he'll see cy's name in his inbox. it's not necessarily that he expects cy to exercise control over sasuke's day-to-day life—although he has known people for whom that is true!—but rather that he respects their relationship enough to want to make a decent impression on cy too.

it's interesting to hear sasuke describe tseng's world that way. midgar itself, tseng thinks, is not violent, not in the way people might imagine upon hearing the word—the violence of midgar is all closed doors and shadowed rooms, battles done with words and contracts and occasional assassinations. but the world... he thinks of junon, the genesis war. nibelheim. yes, the world is violent. ]

It... can be, yes. Although these days the violence is a subtler kind.

[ it's not like midgar is classified intel, but it feels strange to voluntarily offer information about himself, his world. it's a muscle that tseng has not often exercised. ]

I understand. [ well, he was also thinking about things like overstimulation, where someone might say "stop" and really mean "make me come again," but tseng thinks they'll cross that bridge if they come to it. for now, this is easy: stop, no, and tsukuyomi. the word sounds almost wutaian, although tseng doesn't immediately recognize its meaning. ] What does it mean?

[ if sasuke doesn't want to tell him, he won't push, but he is curious. ]

Mine is "juniper."