our filthy hands can wash one another (слэш)

The Asset did not have a countdown, because the Asset did not have a left arm, but even when he did, he had not had a countdown. That is what they told him, and it did not occur to him until much later that maybe they had been lying. Countdowns meant soulmates, and the Asset did not have a soul.
 
Did I ever have numbers? Did they take that from me too? Did I have a countdown on my arm that stopped the minute I saw you? They told me I never had a countdown and I believed them because someone like me doesn’t deserve a soulmate but if it was you I’m willing to be selfish and have you anyway, even though I don’t deserve you. I just don’t know how you can have a soulmate without having a soul, but I need you so much I’m willing to find out.