[There's still enough sweet summer child left in Asriel that he doesn't even bat an eye about the idea of heading off on a playdate with an adult who's still largely a stranger. It'd be fun, right? He nods, opens his mouth to blurt a cheerful agreement, but the smile freezes a bit when she brings up his world.]
Um... my world might not be as nice as you think. I don't... know a lot about the surface, but where I come from, all the monsters left in the world got sealed underground, beneath this big mountain. Humans were scared that monsters might hurt them one day, so they, uh, got rid of us.
But that's... there are lots of good humans, too. And there are some really pretty spots underground, so it's not all bad!
[It's tempting, too, to blurt that the barrier is gone now, that everyone is going to be perfectly happy up on the surface, but... he's not supposed to know that, technically. As far as everyone knows, that was long after his time.]
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Um... my world might not be as nice as you think. I don't... know a lot about the surface, but where I come from, all the monsters left in the world got sealed underground, beneath this big mountain. Humans were scared that monsters might hurt them one day, so they, uh, got rid of us.
But that's... there are lots of good humans, too. And there are some really pretty spots underground, so it's not all bad!
[It's tempting, too, to blurt that the barrier is gone now, that everyone is going to be perfectly happy up on the surface, but... he's not supposed to know that, technically. As far as everyone knows, that was long after his time.]