Asch doesn't respond for a long moment, feeling uncertain, conflicted. There's no words of comfort to offer, not with his own personal feelings and experiences getting in the way- not when death sometimes feels like a freedom to him, even with his will to live, even with everything he'd accomplished. That painful yet persistent urge for it to all be over at last, when the alternative is living, and dying, and living and dying again and again until-]
"She was living on borrowed time. You should be grateful she was around for as long as she was."
[Not that he expects Luke to actually feel that way, but... perspective. Perspective is important.]
[Fonic Link, May 13th]
Asch doesn't respond for a long moment, feeling uncertain, conflicted. There's no words of comfort to offer, not with his own personal feelings and experiences getting in the way- not when death sometimes feels like a freedom to him, even with his will to live, even with everything he'd accomplished. That painful yet persistent urge for it to all be over at last, when the alternative is living, and dying, and living and dying again and again until-]
"She was living on borrowed time. You should be grateful she was around for as long as she was."
[Not that he expects Luke to actually feel that way, but... perspective. Perspective is important.]