[The surprise is more than evident in Mettaton's expression, and, Emet-Selch supposes, understandable. His own expression remains unchanged from its show of detachment- apart from, perhaps, a slight cooling at the mention that Mira had already contacted him over it.]

Oh, so you'd already heard of it after all... I'd say it saves me the trouble of an explanation, and no doubt her version was quite impressive.

[His tone is similar, idle to the point of callousness, clearly unmoved by the mention of her being upset. If anything, the Ascian just seems a touch annoyed by it.

And there's more than a suggestion to his manner that this is something he'd prefer to not speak of any more than that. It's- quite different from the time Mettaton had teased him about her, and he'd gotten somewhat testy about it. It's much darker, with a muted contempt.]

The other was Irhya, for similar yet unrelated reasons.

[Though he'd worked things out in part with her, he didn't have any regret to the loss of the Bond. Nothing had been really solved, and he doubted if anything could be. Even trying to was daunting, but... in the meantime he could accept her presence. Perhaps some sort of understanding wasn't impossible. Eventually. In the meantime, it was probably better for both of them that he couldn't send his regular irritability at her whenever he was feeling spiteful.

Gaze flicking to the side, the shrug to his shoulders is barely there- as though that was the limit to the energy Emet-Selch could spare for any of this.]

I formed them all with too little thought behind it, a giving of undue credit. An error that I shall not repeat.