[ honestly, the grimace is fair as fuck. in truth the current is extremely weak—tseng's not out here trying to jump someone's heart like a car battery—but it was definitely a choice on the part of the house. while he has used them once with one very specific partner, they're not in heavy rotation and never will be.

it doesn't really surprise him to be clocked. tseng has given enough away that someone canny could pick it up, and the way cy says "speaking from experience" tells tseng that he is indeed that someone canny. ]

I also have excellent trigger discipline. [ a tone of matching wryness. he had promised sasuke honesty, and while he hasn't technically made that same promise to cy, he figures it sort of goes part and parcel. ] I lead a... paramilitary unit, I suppose would be the easiest explanation.

[ very liam neeson of him: particular set of skills gained over a long career, etc. the existence of the turks is hardly classified, so despite how odd it feels to have to explain it at all, at the very least he doesn't feel like he's giving away state secrets. ]

Perhaps it's paradoxical, but I think knowing as well as I do how to overpower another is what makes me appreciate so deeply the experience of being given control. Dominating not because I took control by force, but because someone trusted me enough to offer me their submission.