Tseng hadn't always followed orders the way they were meant to be, taking over a decade to actually bring Aerith back to ShinRa had been one of the more obvious ones.

"...I would have given you some letters I was holding on to for you." He says after a while, evading the comment about sickness. After that there had been a few possibilites; hiding them away like Veld and Aerith 'mysteriously' slipping their watch and the city, bringing the two of them on as Turks, he'd even briefely considered the insanity of taking the Turks out of ShinRa but that would have only gotten them all killed.

"It's too late to change the past though, what could have been isn't a possibility for any of us anymore."