[Asch shifts away from the repairing cracks, like he's still not sure how far someone else's emotional shifts might go; last time, his replica had nearly blinded him with light in the air. Even that small sealing-over, coming from the Necromancer, says something. It's not for him, it's not about him -- he can never forget that. For Jade, he's just a means to an end to save the replica.

[So what else is new.

[The cat winds its way between cracked stone using the repaired sections as a path, and rubs up against his legs, purring. Asch ignores it.]

Fine. If there's any risk, I'm not going to be stupid and ignore it.

['Worrying about nothing' is a fool's denial. Only fools take the slim chance of something not happening and bury their heads in the sand; and neither Jade nor Asch are fools. (Asch might be an idiot, sometimes, which is something he's never admitting to anyone -- but he's not a fool.)

[-- Which is a salient question, because he's not the only idiot around. Asch's eyes narrow.]

-- That dreck doesn't know about this, does he?

[He would have acted differently when they'd met, if he did. Surely.]