[Perhaps the first clue that something is genuinely wrong:]
Ah, Yuka, it's good to see you.
[Muffet's greeting as she catches sight of Yuka near the temple is friendly, as usual- but it's also tinged with a surprising degree of relief for someone who, as far as she knows, saw her only a day or two ago.]
[She knows that people sometimes vanish and return around here, yes- but she also knows that a worrying amount of their number had been captured in Ai'tuoh, and she couldn't shake the fear that anyone missing around that timeframe might have been left behind.]
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Ah, Yuka, it's good to see you.
[Muffet's greeting as she catches sight of Yuka near the temple is friendly, as usual- but it's also tinged with a surprising degree of relief for someone who, as far as she knows, saw her only a day or two ago.]
[She knows that people sometimes vanish and return around here, yes- but she also knows that a worrying amount of their number had been captured in Ai'tuoh, and she couldn't shake the fear that anyone missing around that timeframe might have been left behind.]