He opens his mouth, then closes it again. Looks from Sans to the mural as though he's trying to remember something. (DC 16; 1) In the end, he shakes his head; it's out of reach.
"I'm just a kid. I'm a whole lot younger than these murals. Maybe I'm wrong. This is all supposition."
Even memories are unreliable. Dates, on the other hand, are hard fact; it causes him clear distress that Sans's memories aren't so concrete.
"That's true. There could be other information we're missing. Even if there isn't, so much time is unaccounted for that it could be more than a year since that last Candlenights memory and we wouldn't know! Maybe time isn't something that can be relied on as a stable factor here, sir. Maybe facts and concepts are all we have to go on."
He rubs his chin.
"The fact is that I know these murals are important. Even if I don't have concrete evidence to back this up, such as memories of a time when I understood what they meant, I still know this to be a fact! And the only person whose judgment I would trust so strongly would be my own. So let's work on the idea that my feeling is right. The facts and concepts in this mural are these two figures and this book. The best way to build on those concepts is to look for more information on them in the surrounding murals. Will you help me look, sir?"
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"I'm just a kid. I'm a whole lot younger than these murals. Maybe I'm wrong. This is all supposition."
Even memories are unreliable. Dates, on the other hand, are hard fact; it causes him clear distress that Sans's memories aren't so concrete.
"That's true. There could be other information we're missing. Even if there isn't, so much time is unaccounted for that it could be more than a year since that last Candlenights memory and we wouldn't know! Maybe time isn't something that can be relied on as a stable factor here, sir. Maybe facts and concepts are all we have to go on."
He rubs his chin.
"The fact is that I know these murals are important. Even if I don't have concrete evidence to back this up, such as memories of a time when I understood what they meant, I still know this to be a fact! And the only person whose judgment I would trust so strongly would be my own. So let's work on the idea that my feeling is right. The facts and concepts in this mural are these two figures and this book. The best way to build on those concepts is to look for more information on them in the surrounding murals. Will you help me look, sir?"