[Asriel's expression softens, smile fading at the edges.]
...Yeah, I guess you can.
[The angel who has seen the surface. The future of humans and monsters. You will decide this world's future. You are our future. He's seen what happens to people when they're expected to be single-handedly responsible for everyone. He's lived what happens to people when that mantle is thrust upon them.
He doesn't know... anything, really, about the Drifter. What kind of monster they are, where they're from, why they carry so many weapons. Asriel, however, has experienced just enough to see something in the things people say. In the things they don't say. In the silences that come when you start to question why somebody would decide to climb a mountain.
He squeezes the hand he's holding.]
But you don't have to.
Nobody should ever have to try something like that all on their own.
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...Yeah, I guess you can.
[The angel who has seen the surface. The future of humans and monsters. You will decide this world's future. You are our future. He's seen what happens to people when they're expected to be single-handedly responsible for everyone. He's lived what happens to people when that mantle is thrust upon them.
He doesn't know... anything, really, about the Drifter. What kind of monster they are, where they're from, why they carry so many weapons. Asriel, however, has experienced just enough to see something in the things people say. In the things they don't say. In the silences that come when you start to question why somebody would decide to climb a mountain.
He squeezes the hand he's holding.]
But you don't have to.
Nobody should ever have to try something like that all on their own.