Asch, for his part, takes a deep breath, and then another. Jade and Mythra, in the emotional bleed with him, will probably recognize the spike of feeling, of emotion like there's scum on the walls on the inside of his head - but this is a bit he hasn't told then, hasn't told anyone, because if he's honest with himself, Luke is the reason he did it, and Mithos just got lucky with a side effect of it.

"My first driver," he says, voice too crystalline to be anything but the truth, too close to shattering, "wanted to make our Aegises into flesh eaters, so that blades would never have to rely on human drivers again."

He stops again, takes a deep breath, and leaves it there, for everyone else to process for a little while. Instead he says, "I'm probably the person most familiar with flesh eater medical treatment in the world right now, if you want me to take a better look at that wound and your health in general."