...You'll come back. [He knows this fear, so when Luke trails off, Asch makes a guess of it. There's so much lingering in the fonic link now that it's almost painful. Familiar. He knows what it's like to feel your body coming apart at the seams.] Everyone does. They take something from you and send you back like it never happened. Death is so pointless here.

[Unfortunate, yes, and even the lack of finality about it can't stop it from causing as much of a grand upset as death back in Auldrant, but... it's so temporary. There's no rest, no end to everything, no peace.

He kind of hates that.]