Hmmm. [He spreads his hands, considering the skin stretched over them, the wrinkles and occasional hairs that break it up.] Maybe... it's hard for magic to get through skin. There were barely any human mages ever, right?
[From the little anecdotes Toriel's dropped, and the human he encountered, and the various books and other human media he's consumed over the years... it didn't seem like there were very many. It seemed like they barely even thought magic existed. And no wonder, if they couldn't do it at all.]
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[From the little anecdotes Toriel's dropped, and the human he encountered, and the various books and other human media he's consumed over the years... it didn't seem like there were very many. It seemed like they barely even thought magic existed. And no wonder, if they couldn't do it at all.]