[That... makes Ion go quiet. There's a part of him that really doesn't want to answer that question. But another equally strong part of him wants to -- he has so few people he can talk to about things like this. Did he want to talk about it? Talking about would help, but... it would also be like admitting it, wouldn't it? He hardly wanted to admit it to himself.]

[He starts to nod -- then shake his head -- and then he goes still again. He was so conflicted, but... this was Luke. And he didn't want to keep anything from Luke! But something like this... what would he think?]

...something like that. There's... been something on my mind these past few weeks. And I suppose you could say everything got... worse recently. It actually coincides with when all of this started happening...