[They know he can't possibly be lying, so it has to be true that there's a difference between destructiveness and violence. It still... it still completely evades them, though. Synonyms, aren't they? Accidentally spill a bowl of fruit or throw a plate against the wall, and the punishment that follows is still the exact same. Play too loudly, take too much apple juice, spend too much time in your room... anything, no matter how small, could be taken as an intentional, spiteful act, and thus reacted to with the vitriol they came to expect from humanity. Right?
Better not to ask any uncomfortable questions about it. They need to think about it harder. Even in a forced-honesty situation, they can still play it like they're totally following along with adult concepts if it's something they need to mull over before they know what they actually feel about it, right?
He moves on, anyway, and they're spared finding out the hard way whether they have to bring it up or not. Sans mentions the CD thing - man, they'd totally forgotten they'd ever told him anything like that! So much for being nothing but a memory, ha. They sit up straighter, eyes lighting up despite themselves.]
Isn't it wild? I've thought really hard about why it does those spider-cracks like that, but... golly, I don't know! It must be whatever makes ice and glass crack the same way, but without any actual... nothing's hitting it, just... light or heat or something! Where else can you see something break without even being touched at all?
[Well, not break - it's still in one piece, right? Maybe fixating on the fact that it breaks is the wrong thing to focus on, anyway, but... there's prettiness in it, isn't there? There's mystery in the way something can change without anything laying a hand on it.]
They're fascinating, aren't they? Microwaves, I mean. A CD cracks, but glass doesn't. Tinfoil is fine getting heated in an oven, but it's the complete opposite of fine getting heated in a microwave. Let's both pretend I know exactly why that is, because that's gotta be the kind of thing a thirteen-year-old would definitely know.
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Better not to ask any uncomfortable questions about it. They need to think about it harder. Even in a forced-honesty situation, they can still play it like they're totally following along with adult concepts if it's something they need to mull over before they know what they actually feel about it, right?
He moves on, anyway, and they're spared finding out the hard way whether they have to bring it up or not. Sans mentions the CD thing - man, they'd totally forgotten they'd ever told him anything like that! So much for being nothing but a memory, ha. They sit up straighter, eyes lighting up despite themselves.]
Isn't it wild? I've thought really hard about why it does those spider-cracks like that, but... golly, I don't know! It must be whatever makes ice and glass crack the same way, but without any actual... nothing's hitting it, just... light or heat or something! Where else can you see something break without even being touched at all?
[Well, not break - it's still in one piece, right? Maybe fixating on the fact that it breaks is the wrong thing to focus on, anyway, but... there's prettiness in it, isn't there? There's mystery in the way something can change without anything laying a hand on it.]
They're fascinating, aren't they? Microwaves, I mean. A CD cracks, but glass doesn't. Tinfoil is fine getting heated in an oven, but it's the complete opposite of fine getting heated in a microwave. Let's both pretend I know exactly why that is, because that's gotta be the kind of thing a thirteen-year-old would definitely know.