[Some kind of desperate search for meaning, in the wake of Bill's tumultuous re-entrance into Wonderland. A way to pick apart what happened and why, and whether they can keep it from happening again. (They can't.) Mettaton might be safe from one threat, but there's the second one Sans mentioned, there's his Mirror, and that's not as easy to dismiss or detach. Beating Bill seems, comparatively, infinitely easier, simply because they know that it can be done.
They find someone in the library, and it's not a terrible surprise once they realize who it is.
Trying to contort their expression into a smile seems like too much work, right now. But it's easy to end up a step or two behind him, like maybe this time they can make things...easier than they usually do. Help people, instead of always needing to be helped.]
Ford? [Wait. No. Wrong. The word feels foreign, even now. Like they shouldn't pretend they have a right to it.] Um...Grunkle?
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They find someone in the library, and it's not a terrible surprise once they realize who it is.
Trying to contort their expression into a smile seems like too much work, right now. But it's easy to end up a step or two behind him, like maybe this time they can make things...easier than they usually do. Help people, instead of always needing to be helped.]
Ford? [Wait. No. Wrong. The word feels foreign, even now. Like they shouldn't pretend they have a right to it.] Um...Grunkle?