[Asch shouldn't you be doing something? Like not being here to embarrass the tar out of her?]

Thank you, but that really isn't necessary.

Good. Great. Insistent upon the usual things; rejoining the Swords, moving back home, settling in to start a family. Apparently, my informing her multiple times that this was purely a business trip meant nothing in the grand scheme of things.

[She hadn't actually run into her yet, and was deeply hoping she wouldn't. It was an impossible dream, but a dream nonetheless.]