[Papyrus turns to scowl Sans's way, but cuts himself off from saying more right away. Not least because, as it turns out, another of the unpleasant things about having stuff like skin and muscles is that he can feel his eyelid twitching.
He scrubs at it with one hand, shoulders hunching a little at the idea that maybe this looks like he's rubbing at tears or something, and refuses to consider whether maybe he is. Years ago, he would have just been insulted by his brother treating him like a baby bones who needs to be told to say 'please'. Months ago, he was grateful to have Sans giving advice and taking some responsibilities off his shoulders. These days...]
...Why would. That... I was talking about newspaper puzzles. Not, newspaper clipping conspiracy puzzles. They have newspapers here every day, how can that be...
[On some level, he knows he's misinterpreting the (unusually strong) advice. That the problem isn't the normality of puzzles, but that apparently there was some other puzzle in there, and... that maybe he drew attention to it. He crosses his arms tightly over his chest, defensively.]
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[Papyrus turns to scowl Sans's way, but cuts himself off from saying more right away. Not least because, as it turns out, another of the unpleasant things about having stuff like skin and muscles is that he can feel his eyelid twitching.
He scrubs at it with one hand, shoulders hunching a little at the idea that maybe this looks like he's rubbing at tears or something, and refuses to consider whether maybe he is. Years ago, he would have just been insulted by his brother treating him like a baby bones who needs to be told to say 'please'. Months ago, he was grateful to have Sans giving advice and taking some responsibilities off his shoulders. These days...]
...Why would. That... I was talking about newspaper puzzles. Not, newspaper clipping conspiracy puzzles. They have newspapers here every day, how can that be...
[On some level, he knows he's misinterpreting the (unusually strong) advice. That the problem isn't the normality of puzzles, but that apparently there was some other puzzle in there, and... that maybe he drew attention to it. He crosses his arms tightly over his chest, defensively.]