[Ah, so that's it. That's what set this off. Endogeny. Papyrus...what was it he had said? He'd asked about the...ah, the lab. Yeah, okay. Play on the word "lab," sure. He's told that joke plenty of times, over plenty different timelines.]
[He has, right? In a lot of them at least.]
[Frisk is struggling. He knows this feeling really well, the feeling of trying to grasp at a word or a concept and only being able to brush the surface. Something the Resets drag away, and he's left with lines of the script and some vague impressions.]
yeah, i know. alphys's lab. the--hey. don't do that.
[They hit themselves and he flinches a little.]
try not to do that, okay? it won't really...help. but, yeah. i don't know if there was ever an official name for it. or maybe you gave it one.
[He leans back against the wall, since that seems safest. Gives them plenty of room to pace, puts him at the edge of things, out of their way, less of an intrusion. And he doesn't have to stand up all the way.]
we lost something in the flood event, too. about time. how it moves in circles. [He pauses and sighs.] i get how you feel. at least it's just the words. not the concepts behind them.
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[Ah, so that's it. That's what set this off. Endogeny. Papyrus...what was it he had said? He'd asked about the...ah, the lab. Yeah, okay. Play on the word "lab," sure. He's told that joke plenty of times, over plenty different timelines.]
[He has, right? In a lot of them at least.]
[Frisk is struggling. He knows this feeling really well, the feeling of trying to grasp at a word or a concept and only being able to brush the surface. Something the Resets drag away, and he's left with lines of the script and some vague impressions.]
yeah, i know. alphys's lab. the--hey. don't do that.
[They hit themselves and he flinches a little.]
try not to do that, okay? it won't really...help. but, yeah. i don't know if there was ever an official name for it. or maybe you gave it one.
[He leans back against the wall, since that seems safest. Gives them plenty of room to pace, puts him at the edge of things, out of their way, less of an intrusion. And he doesn't have to stand up all the way.]
we lost something in the flood event, too. about time. how it moves in circles. [He pauses and sighs.] i get how you feel. at least it's just the words. not the concepts behind them.