In Ray's perspective, Asher appears to be a discerning yet ambiguous young man.
During the first few hours they were together, he tried to figure out why he was beating around the bush. The fact that he didn't go straight to business baffled him. He toured him all around their secret base from morning until afternoon - or at least the visible parts of it.
It seemed that there's more to this place other than what he already saw.
"You look like you are still in your twenty's. Yet the way you smoke already resembles how an old man does it," Ray pointed out as he took the cigar he was trying to hand over to him for a while now.
"Like how you do it?" Asher muttered lowly, still smirking.
"Yeah. I won't deny that."
"Rather than how I smoke, shouldn't you be more concerned about how you will go around this situation? You probably didn't notice, but I did try to show you a few exits that you could easily slip into, you know."
I swear I intend to make this particular scene as short as possible, but instead of having it occupy only half of this chapter, it takes over the whole! \(°o°)/
But at least, I was able to clear things up in one go. With this, I'll be moving on to the real deal soon. One of the major revelations in the story will finally happen ⊙.☉
Who is the mastermind?
And who really is Asher?
( ꈍᴗꈍ) Well, we'll get there soon!