[ tseng is also a smoker, although less of one since his arrival here. it's not entirely because there's no one to mind the smell—although he suspects that aerith wouldn't love it—and more because he has, perhaps paradoxically, fewer things to drive him to it than he did back home.
he offers his lighter for cy, a gesture of camaraderie. ]
You came in the early cohort too, no? [ small talk, tseng edition. he knows this because of reading back through everything that had happened prior to his arrival. ] I recognized your name from the network.
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[ tseng is also a smoker, although less of one since his arrival here. it's not entirely because there's no one to mind the smell—although he suspects that aerith wouldn't love it—and more because he has, perhaps paradoxically, fewer things to drive him to it than he did back home.
he offers his lighter for cy, a gesture of camaraderie. ]
You came in the early cohort too, no? [ small talk, tseng edition. he knows this because of reading back through everything that had happened prior to his arrival. ] I recognized your name from the network.