[Fonon separation weakens the body. That includes the immune system, and is surely the reason why Asch is curled up in bed, feeling like death, while Luke is still healthy enough to run around taking care of him.
That's what he hates about this most of all, really. If Luke were at least a little sick, he could handle it. But no, instead he's had to deal with the idiot's hovering attention constantly. At least Asch has managed, somehow, to be productive in figuring out his new sense of the Seventh Fonon; Luke's a bright bundle of them no matter where he goes in the house, and Asch has been using that sense to pretend to be asleep whenever his replica checks in. It's not hard. He coughs as much asleep as awake, and curling up around his pillow is the least uncomfortable position to be in in either case.
Too bad that trick doesn't notify him of any other visitors to his sickroom door.]
[Anytime from the afternoon of the seventh to the ninth, house of redheads]
That's what he hates about this most of all, really. If Luke were at least a little sick, he could handle it. But no, instead he's had to deal with the idiot's hovering attention constantly. At least Asch has managed, somehow, to be productive in figuring out his new sense of the Seventh Fonon; Luke's a bright bundle of them no matter where he goes in the house, and Asch has been using that sense to pretend to be asleep whenever his replica checks in. It's not hard. He coughs as much asleep as awake, and curling up around his pillow is the least uncomfortable position to be in in either case.
Too bad that trick doesn't notify him of any other visitors to his sickroom door.]