...Wait, you... [Oh. That's why she's ashamed of this. He hesitates.] You had to, like, kill people?
[He chews on that for a long moment, not sure how to reconcile the idea of sacrificing innocent lives with saving an entire race, but the sudden howl startles him out of his thoughts.]
Um, Alphys? What is that? Is it, uh, as unfriendly as it sounds?
[But she's sad, not worried, right? This is probably fine?]
no subject
[He chews on that for a long moment, not sure how to reconcile the idea of sacrificing innocent lives with saving an entire race, but the sudden howl startles him out of his thoughts.]
Um, Alphys? What is that? Is it, uh, as unfriendly as it sounds?
[But she's sad, not worried, right? This is probably fine?]