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Oh Abeegail, what am I to do? I need to help five people and fill them with hope so I can get something that makes me feel like I have a heart again! Because I don't have a heart inside my body, which apparently means far more to me than it does for most of the people in this stupid cave. Hmn? What's that Beeatrice, this trade is basically impossible for me without the thing I'm trading for? Right you are! How smart, and how quickly you realized it, you smart little bee.

[His faux enthusiasm drops and he glares flatly at the camera.]

Come help a witch help you to help himself help us all. I have healing magic and a temper. If you think this is cheating, I don't want to hear it, and I only want things that will actually help. I'm serious, I'm trying to be good, here.

...Oh, and it goes against everything else I'm trying to do here, but I should let you know that the bees I found can't make honey. Maybe if you tell Delight or someone they can, she'll believe you and the copies will be able to, I don't know. I don't really care.

[He's screwed.]

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I made a deal with Hope, are you happy?

[He's mad enough about this without the reminder...]

We didn't go into the specifics, he just said he can make something that will keep me...me. The not-wicked me.

[Ah. And there's a difference, that's the thing. The lights in the skeleton's sockets bead with a glimmer of emotion that might be difficult to place.]

So there's a wicked you too. Fun for the whole family.

[...uh]

I guess.

[With that kind of look, he sorta...feels the need to be vague and not push the issue.]

Is that the you I'm talkin' to now?

[He's very casual about it. Very deliberate. One hand drawn up to meet the rounded edge of his skull that comprises his chin, his tone nothing short of utterly reasonable.]

[NNNH]

I said I didn't have my heart, didn't I?

Is that why it's acceptable to throw bees at people?

[That's really the most malicious thing he's come across the other guy doin'. Not really on the level with, uh, murder. Reapin' EXP from the dust of your victims and so on and so forth.

So he's a "wicked" kinda guy, is he?

Maybe. Sans can judge that for himself given enough time.]

It wasn't at people, it was at Hope! Not even. At his temple. I even told people to leave, when I was still going to do it!

[which he didn't!!! HE STILL WANTS SOME GRATITUDE, MR. SANS.]

He was pissing me off. And he still is. Do you know he made another one of his conditions "be polite to me"? What a jerk.

Yeah, well. Sorrow wasn't gonna help me out unless I stopped tellin' him jokes, so I had to turn him down.

[Had to turn him down. He really had no choice in the matter, honestly. A skeleton without jokes is like a tombstone without an appropriately catchy epithet.]

Y'know, the last person that went up against them got himself pretty thrashed. There was a bettin' pool and everything.

[Gren. He's talking about Gren. Sans ran that betting pool.]

[...Sans...] You realize I have also banned you from jokes. Conditionally, anyway.

[thank him... notice him, skeleton senpai...

But maybe not in the way you noticed that other guy.]

Hmmn. I stopped paying attention to all that when some girl got really uppity with me.

Then I guess you should bid those jokes bone voyage.

[Suffice to say, no. No, he will not be stopping the jokes. You cannot make him. He literally practical-joked himself all the way to his own death.]

What girl?

Stop.

[cease... Anyway he doesn't have the will to actually hang up on Sans. He is but a simple witch, he needs attention.]

I wasn't really interested in getting to know her. She's somewhere here. Look around. Whining about the orchard again.

[For 9999999 G a month, he will stop.]

Some people're pretty dependent on the orchard to, uh, live. Might wanna consider that.

How many times do I have to say that I wasn't going to chop all of the trees down?!

Intent has a lot to do with it, pal.

[You meant to. That's just as bad.]

I never intended to destroy all of them, either! I wanted to, and I want to now, because I can't believe you're bringing this up again --

[WARRICK THAT WAS YOU]

-- but that was never the plan. Just two or three! Maybe five max.

That's kind of a lot when they ain't really a renewable resource here.

[Want and intent also have quiiiiiiite a bit of overlap, honestly.]

Magical fruit trees are the very definition of renewable resource.

Maybe not in the conventional sense. I don't much feel like feelin' sad for a week so Sorrow can grow 'em back.

[That's a hypothesis. He can't know for certain if that's what would be required of Hadriel's denizens if somethin' happened to the orchards, but given what happened during Sorrow's resurrection, he thinks it's a pretty good guess.]

I'd gladly take everyone being sad about it over calling me and idiot and threatening me.

[like he doesn't deserve it]

Maybe they've gotta pretty good reason to do that.

[If a lotta people are callin' him out, that's probably for the best. Don't mean Sans won't judge from the sidelines. Can't help it, bud, sorry. It's kinda his job.]

Doesn't mean it doesn't piss me off!

[his delicate ego!! his temper!!!]

So this is "wicked" you, huh? Not real big on the empathy, are ya?

I'm heartless, what do you want from me?!

You clearly ain't completely devoid of the stuff, or you would'a tossed those bees anyway.

[Just sayin', it raises a lotta moralistic questions here. He knows what not caring looks like. He knows precisely what it looks and feels like. And this...might have some of the calling cards, but does it have a full deck?

Well. That's the big question, ain't it?]

[...can't deny that's true. It's not the intended effect, but it makes Warrick feel a little better and he calms down some.]

It's...hard to explain. I have emotions, but not a lot of control over them. Losing control mostly gets anger. But even then, I don't want to kill people. You said you needed Hope to get you special food, so I didn't put bees in his temple even if he definitely deserved it. I didn't want you to starve.

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