[While Sasuke has no mortification wrapped up in the idea of sharing Cy's name with anyone, there is a part of him that feels—unwilling, still, to put it into the air. To have it be known. He doesn't understand his feelings surrounding it completely, but it's like so many other parts of his life, better held close and guarded from the rest of the world. As if to release it would be to endanger it.]

I did. He's a good man.

[He continues to pointedly not look at Ichigo across from him.]

I wasn't myself, and I didn't know if anyone else could handle me in that state, who had experience with the act itself. [Voice lowering, a more serious tone.] It was worse than how it felt back in Stygia. I was hallucinating. I had nightmares and strange dreams. I don't think the effects are the same for everyone.