[They anticipate - protests. They expect rages, refutations, insistences that you're wrong! He would never do that. Or, even if he would, even if he did, it's different now, and he's different, and how dare you say such a horrible thing. Frisk could get over it, could they not? They could just shrug it all aside and walk on and hug him and trust him and love him like he's someone that earned it, like he's someone that put even the barest, most mediocre effort into any of it!]
[Nothing about his answer communicates mistrust.]
[It's not...] [It isn't something they hear, very often.]
I cannot say. If I were to guess, it would be my wager that there is an expectation among the elder that children are just as powerful and capable as they. Perhaps they do not register that wariness between adults is not the same as the treatment of one adult who does not trust a child.
I've been informed he's changed. I have yet to believe it.
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[They anticipate - protests. They expect rages, refutations, insistences that you're wrong! He would never do that. Or, even if he would, even if he did, it's different now, and he's different, and how dare you say such a horrible thing. Frisk could get over it, could they not? They could just shrug it all aside and walk on and hug him and trust him and love him like he's someone that earned it, like he's someone that put even the barest, most mediocre effort into any of it!]
[Nothing about his answer communicates mistrust.]
[It's not...]
[It isn't something they hear, very often.]
I cannot say. If I were to guess, it would be my wager that there is an expectation among the elder that children are just as powerful and capable as they. Perhaps they do not register that wariness between adults is not the same as the treatment of one adult who does not trust a child.
I've been informed he's changed. I have yet to believe it.