Physiological needs, [Laedo asks, not quite putting two and two together. However, as Haise continues on, even if the askan doesn't understand the full depths of the dilemma that the man is in, he begins to realize the breadth.]

You are possessed, then, [he speaks lowly, for it is the best that he can make of the limited information.] This... ghoul... it drives you? I don't understand, you do nothing wrong, yet like a daemon it sounds as though it saps your strength. How do we rid you of it?

[...A hit and a miss, here. He doesn't want to acknowledge that Haise might have to be contended with. He'd rather excise a parasite than see Haise for who he really is, at least at a guess like this.]