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[Wryly, Vincent remarks:] Same thing.

[It's not, but it's close enough. If there was anything Verdot didn't want people to know, he'd have had it confiscated. The files inherited would be enough information for Tseng to have, even if Vincent is but one of Shinra's many miserable secrets.]

Just to consider my files to be a cautionary tale. Though I'm sure you already have.

[Love was not the problem, even if one might suggest otherwise for a Turk. Failing to save the person he respected most, and her child? That is the sin.]

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[ in some ways, it's better that tseng learned what he could from the files. verdot was many things, but not always a paragon of truthfulness, especially when it came to the less savory truths about the turks and what they do, the atrocities that had shinra's fingerprints all over them. the files, on the other hand, were moderately—moderately—less likely to have been tampered with.

the warning does make tseng lift an eyebrow, though. there are a number of things about vincent's story that could be considered warnings. ]

Generally speaking, or is there a part you'd like me to heed in particular?

[ tseng asks, only for the loudspeaker overhead to crackle to life to remind them that they're meant to be fucking in this little ferris wheel car. tseng sighs, pinches the bridge of his nose. ]