"Hard to meet the local people when they're all in their bedrooms..." Papyrus grins in response, though he tilts his head a little. "Humans really do have to sleep, huh?"

"So do most monsters," Sistina points out. "Remember Undyne lying around on the couch all night?"

She shifts into a small rodent and clambers off his head onto his shoulder, where she can burrow her face into the fabric of his shirt for a moment... "All these surprises... They're like puzzles, but without any solution. Why? To see how well we handle them...? Practice for some other, bigger surprises??"