[It gives her pause, to hear the lull in conversation, causes Alphys' head to turn towards her with a softer gaze as she speaks. It was hard enough to lose her friends, but someone like that? Someone who's spent more than her entire life together only to be taken apart?

She comes down from the stool she's on, and wraps her arms around Lup. She's about Merle-sized, so it's not the ideal arms around arms like she'd imagine in an anime, but boy is she trying.]

You know, it's... in m-my favorite shows, it's always those kind of loves that are the strongest. People, uhm, destined to be together, from other lives or worlds just... always finding their way back to each other.

[Alphys can't look up to see her face like this, so she just concentrates in putting her all into this hug, the magic of her SOUL pressing a bit of extra warmth into it.]

And I think that's what you'll do too. You'll, uhm, always f-find each other no matter where you are, because your hearts are connected, and... yeah.