She starts to apologize, and his soul sinks. Oh god, she's going to say that Tim is dying, isn't she? This is it. He's just going to have to sit and watch Tim suffocate.

She doesn't, though, and Sans takes a shaky breath.

"no, i know, i get it. i just, i need human advice, i don't know what--what this is, if he's--i don't know what to do, if i should...teleport him back to the mansion, if that would make it worse? i don't..."

He doesn't know, god, why does he know so little about how humans actually work? Why did he never bother to learn?

"it's...in the woods, kind of near the lake. left of the lake."

What is she asking? How long it's been? Right, because humans can only live so long without oxygen, right? That must be why she's--

Oh.

Wait.

He doesn't answer right away.

"make it...make it three minutes."

He pauses, because part of him doesn't want to tell her, doesn't want to make this any more stressful for her, but--well, it'll be a helluva lot worse for all of them if he doesn't say this.

"i was teleporting before that. so make it three minutes at the most."