[An accurate deduction. Tseng is clever, in that way he would have found himself naturally more careful around — barring the circumstances they've found themselves in, which introduces intimacy. He was honest before: he doesn't regret it. It may have been challenging at first to consider opening himself up to someone else's control, given his own limited experience, but Tseng has deftly smoothed that wrinkle of uncertainty.

As if some difficulty of tension has passed, he allows himself to lean back against the couch.]

I want to know the same for you — what drew you to the dynamic. I know you've said that you had experience prior to this place, so you must come from a world where it's possible. Is it Earth?

[That one has seemed most common across his conversations.]