Escaping the Turks with the help of a Turk would make far more sense. They lived by their mythos as much as SOLDIER did, just in very different ways.

It was expected that sooner or later tensions would flare between Shinra and Wutai. Any time now, once the Rhadorans were seen to, he expected a follow-up deployment. War and all its horrors, sanitized for the silver screen, didn't phase him much. Probably didn't, for anyoen in their line of work. "Possibly to encourage questions." Which had worked, didn't it? "Before it began, there was a message on the device, implying we are meant to become closer." Shared experiences cause bonds, right? Normally?

Except it's invented shared experiences. "Making things up won't help though."