Ion was made suspicious by Van's alignment to his cause. After all, if anything Tear had said was true, something was amiss with him. There was no time to spend pondering that now, however. He would simply go along with it because any plan that worked was a good one at the moment.

"That's true," Ion said. "Luke is going to help me, Arietta. We need him in order to keep going with our plans. Please help us, and give him back."