Frisk folds Chara's arms around their midriff, flicking their gaze away as he recoils - they pull themself in and down, small and unassuming and above all non-threatening in demeanor with reflexive practice.
"I was but you made it better," they insist with a strength at odds with their posture. "You're not human but it doesn't hurt you, right? It was just... going between that did. It was hurting anyway."
They shiver. They remember very vividly Chara's flesh melting and dessicating to dust. It's not the sort of thing easily forgotten, as evidenced on S-4's part too. They rub at their wrist with a hand, the sweatercloth fraying across it and unease on their enclosed features.
"Y'don't have to. I don't think you would but you don't have to."
They can... they can think of something else, maybe. Push comes to shove, maybe they can alter the bruise a bit, make it look less like a hand and more like the sort of thing that might come from accident, and even if Chara knows that one it would lower the suspect list. It's... an uncomfortable idea, to say the least. They've hurt Chara enough.
Maybe there's someone else in the Castle who knows healing magic. It's a long shot, but they'd be willing to try in the name of not putting S-4 through undue duress and distress.
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cw self harm
Date: 2017-05-21 11:23 am (UTC)"I was but you made it better," they insist with a strength at odds with their posture. "You're not human but it doesn't hurt you, right? It was just... going between that did. It was hurting anyway."
They shiver. They remember very vividly Chara's flesh melting and dessicating to dust. It's not the sort of thing easily forgotten, as evidenced on S-4's part too. They rub at their wrist with a hand, the sweatercloth fraying across it and unease on their enclosed features.
"Y'don't have to. I don't think you would but you don't have to."
They can... they can think of something else, maybe. Push comes to shove, maybe they can alter the bruise a bit, make it look less like a hand and more like the sort of thing that might come from accident, and even if Chara knows that one it would lower the suspect list. It's... an uncomfortable idea, to say the least. They've hurt Chara enough.
Maybe there's someone else in the Castle who knows healing magic. It's a long shot, but they'd be willing to try in the name of not putting S-4 through undue duress and distress.