[For a long moment, it looks as if Luke still isn't going to move or speak. But after that, he shuts his eyes and nods slowly. There was no use hiding it now. Even if talking about it feels like there's ice in his stomach.]

Did you see that room I was in?

[He doesn't wait for an answer. Even though he didn't feel Asch there, somewhere in Luke's subconscious, he knew that Asch was watching. At least to check up on him, see how Luke would return.]

It was filling up with miasma. After a while I couldn't even see anything. [He squints slightly, around the fog in his head. Yes, that's why he's sick. But the other side of it, the one Asch knows now...] They told me they'd release it into the village if I didn't get rid of it.

[They might have been bluffing. But Luke didn't want to risk it.]