[Asch falls silent for a while at that. It's not that he'd ever trust Dist - too many years of watching the man working on his own schemes, using position and obsessions and... alright, genius to get his way - but... with Jade gone and Van impossible to reach, and Spinoza in Auldrant, he didn't have anyone else to turn to. And if he could at least trust Spinoza to give him an honest answer, maybe Dist will too, for the sake of science, if nothing else.
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So... fine. Maybe he'll try.]
...I've already died.