Dist listens carefully, and chews his bottom lip restlessly. Jade is indeed useless to van, but what could he possibly hope to gain here? Luceti is a wholly different place! There's no Score, barely any fonons, no fonmachines, no Lorelei, nothing. Nothing that Van could hope to change in that demented mind of his.
Yet his presence still intimidated Dist. Van wasn't stupid...not entirely, and Dist wasn't stupid to not admit it. That's what made Van so unsettling. He was smart, and secretive, and knew how to meddle with peoples' minds. Did Dist just say anything he shouldn't have? ...No matter. It shouldn't be his concern anyway! Asch and the replica weren't his concern, after all. Why should he give even half a damn about them?!]
Then are we finished here, Commandant? I'd rather not linger out in the dark too long, you see.
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Dist listens carefully, and chews his bottom lip restlessly. Jade is indeed useless to van, but what could he possibly hope to gain here? Luceti is a wholly different place! There's no Score, barely any fonons, no fonmachines, no Lorelei, nothing. Nothing that Van could hope to change in that demented mind of his.
Yet his presence still intimidated Dist. Van wasn't stupid...not entirely, and Dist wasn't stupid to not admit it. That's what made Van so unsettling. He was smart, and secretive, and knew how to meddle with peoples' minds. Did Dist just say anything he shouldn't have? ...No matter. It shouldn't be his concern anyway! Asch and the replica weren't his concern, after all. Why should he give even half a damn about them?!]
Then are we finished here, Commandant? I'd rather not linger out in the dark too long, you see.