[Brain frowns for half a moment--and there's a trickle of confusion--before he realizes he recognizes that expression on Hubert's face.
He's not nearly as expressive as Heart by any means, but...Brain's seen that look enough times to know what it means, though Hubert wears it far more subtly. That, combined with the past tense and the anxious tapping, well...]
...I see.
[Brain is not human. He's made that entirely clear. He has very little sympathy for them, usually, for a variety of reasons ('Few better motivations than spite.' Hubert had said, and Brain could very well not deny it,) but this...feels different.
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He's not nearly as expressive as Heart by any means, but...Brain's seen that look enough times to know what it means, though Hubert wears it far more subtly. That, combined with the past tense and the anxious tapping, well...]
...I see.
[Brain is not human. He's made that entirely clear. He has very little sympathy for them, usually, for a variety of reasons ('Few better motivations than spite.' Hubert had said, and Brain could very well not deny it,) but this...feels different.
The question is...why?]