Neither of those are acceptable! Reluctantly Sephiroth uncoils enough to pick up his still-recording relic and check its messages again. "'You can either talk about what happened (or didn't) or not talk wink wink about it with them.' Which surely we've already done." The movie was discussed! What else could be hoped for?

But that latter one probably did mean hugs and .... no. He's not really had many of those but the last two had rather unpleasant reactions and he didn't really want to repeat it. "...So perhaps the door is already unlocked?"