[Ash is now trying to tell him in a way to calm him. Ash is trying to talk as if there's some salvation in this, as if it's less bad, because they'll be punished, as if they can skip the trauma that Ash had to go through, alone, in the immediate aftermath, because they can focus on the future. The future, in which Ash will have to face it in a courtroom. "Anonymously." Right.]
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