[At the very least, Sephiroth can always be counted on for his honesty and he'd expressed no more and no less than what he thought of her. There are very few people that he cares for and those that he does he wouldn't put into words, or even allow himself to ponder as such. It's just getting them set up to be weaknesses.

For once though, however significant the revelation he were about to divulge to Lust about himself, Sephiroth seemed almost at peace with it. In a kind of 'wrestled-with-a-thousand times and now bored of' kind of way.]

Not so much changed, only that I'd never known. Turned out that 'special' didn't put me on the so-called righteous path that I'd at one time solidly believed in.

[A pause; he knew he had to give more that she'd have any comprehension at all.]

Special in the dangerous, potentially world-destructive way, as opposed to special in terms of naturally gifted.