Just like how he was trying to understand his captor, his captor was already trying to get a good understanding of him.
What he never knew was that Ash had not intended to let him go, but she would not let him know that until everything was over.
He did not know that he had already been at a great disadvantage from the start of their little interaction.
From the moment that Ash established a connection between them, she could already feel his fear on a much deeper level.
That caused her to gain a much greater understanding of his level of fear that he held despite trying to mask it.
She could feel each change in that fear as it rose and fell.
Her mastery of sensing it when connected with her targets had improved each time she did it, and that only improved further as her power grew.
