[A couple days in the dark hasn't been long enough for him to forget how expressive his brother's human face is, but Papyrus is freshly aware of it, seeing that unfamiliar expression. His hand drifts up toward his cheek, as if to wipe away the reason for staring... but there's nothing to be done with it. Not here and now, and without healing magic, maybe... not at all.
He shivers, and immediately takes a bolstering breath to cover the reaction, then shifts his stance to something more confident - the sort of pose he'd come to setting a cape fluttering behind in. The mask doesn't help with the look, though, still in the same bland expression.]
Well! A-as second-best timings go, this was, pretty good!! I needed some help, just now. [Even trying to be confident and reassuring, there's still hints of everything amiss. He's speaking a little more slowly than usual, enunciating more carefully, to make up for the way the mask presses against damaged muscles.]
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[A couple days in the dark hasn't been long enough for him to forget how expressive his brother's human face is, but Papyrus is freshly aware of it, seeing that unfamiliar expression. His hand drifts up toward his cheek, as if to wipe away the reason for staring... but there's nothing to be done with it. Not here and now, and without healing magic, maybe... not at all.
He shivers, and immediately takes a bolstering breath to cover the reaction, then shifts his stance to something more confident - the sort of pose he'd come to setting a cape fluttering behind in. The mask doesn't help with the look, though, still in the same bland expression.]
Well! A-as second-best timings go, this was, pretty good!! I needed some help, just now. [Even trying to be confident and reassuring, there's still hints of everything amiss. He's speaking a little more slowly than usual, enunciating more carefully, to make up for the way the mask presses against damaged muscles.]