[Wrapped up in their private chaos, Frisk utterly fails to recognize the blunder that has Tim scrambling to cover them. It's all they can do to focus on Muffet's calm, even response, pull a sense of relevancy out of it. Lup will... find Taako. They're sure of it. That kind of determination -- there's no derailing it.]
[So, four people unaccounted for. Frisk tries to summon the names and faces, but then Chara speaks again, and the foundation for their bridge to the others creaks, their attention drawn back to their Partner. Only once the implication registers do they look over, first to Muffet, then to Tim. They try not to linger. Biting their tongue, they clutch at their sweater and reach through the staticky bramble, still their expression even as their SOUL fills with the hair-trigger sensation of accessing their SAVE.]
[They're going to do it whether Tim and Muffet leave or not. It's a matter of waiting to see if they'll be that lucky.]
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[So, four people unaccounted for. Frisk tries to summon the names and faces, but then Chara speaks again, and the foundation for their bridge to the others creaks, their attention drawn back to their Partner. Only once the implication registers do they look over, first to Muffet, then to Tim. They try not to linger. Biting their tongue, they clutch at their sweater and reach through the staticky bramble, still their expression even as their SOUL fills with the hair-trigger sensation of accessing their SAVE.]
[They're going to do it whether Tim and Muffet leave or not. It's a matter of waiting to see if they'll be that lucky.]