[Asch's hand tightens around his book a little bit, lips pursing, though he doesn't speak up right away. There's a slight ripple of emotion through the link, veiled concern and discomfort, confusion, mixed feelings all around. With the way they are now, after everything they've gone through, he feels like he's constantly walking a tightrope of hating this reliance on his replica and needing it, desperately and painfully. Which meant reciprocating things when he replica needed him.
It's disquieting, something he can't quite bring into words. But he understands completely the need to use the fonic link this way.
Luke's answer doesn't surprise him, not really; he has responsibilities, duties to attend to. Without him, without his hyperresonance and the Jewel of Lorelei, the world will be doomed to be destroyed by the miasma. Van still hasn't been dealt with. It really doesn't leave him with much choice.
Still, even without that surprise, he has to ask.]
[Action, February 3rd]
It's disquieting, something he can't quite bring into words. But he understands completely the need to use the fonic link this way.
Luke's answer doesn't surprise him, not really; he has responsibilities, duties to attend to. Without him, without his hyperresonance and the Jewel of Lorelei, the world will be doomed to be destroyed by the miasma. Van still hasn't been dealt with. It really doesn't leave him with much choice.
Still, even without that surprise, he has to ask.]
"Why?"