He understands the unspoken question, however, and after a moment he offers an answer.

"... I witnessed many of the early experiments with Jenova... Gast discovered it shortly before my ninth birthday. ... both my parents worked for Shinra, and I joined the ... Turks when I was sixteen..." Teenage rebellion to join then and there, perhaps, but... he'd had other reasons, too. "... I was privy to a lot of information. ... and I was there for the experiments that... produced Sephiroth..." He takes a deep breath and lets it out in a sigh, ducking a little more into his collar. "... and since Meteorfall I have conducted... additional research..."

Into Shinra, Jenova, Geostigma and more... though Jenova and Geostigma and just -- reorienting himself to a world thirty years beyond what he remembered had taken up most of the past couple years for him.