Irwin tilted his head.

" I beg your pardon? The gem box is no more than 15 G. "

He scratched his head.

" Maybe I should be a little more adamant about carving more price handles... Ah well, it's fine. Perhaps I can find something else. Most everything in this store does not go over 35 G, so maybe something else suits your needs... "

The stout monster shuffled his way through the chilling snow at a leisurely pace; hands in pockets and head tilted back slightly in a relaxed fashion. Once he was within talking-range he slipped his left hand out and motioned a lazy wave, "'Sup Lupina?" he greeted with a mild chuckle. Her genuine eagerness and cheerful demeanour had always been a welcoming sight for as long as Sans could remember, and this time was no exception.

The skeleton gave a guilty shrug, "Sorry about that. Losing track of time has been a habit I've developed recently." he apologised and omce he was beside her they had started the usual route of patrol. Ordinarily he'd much rather stay at his post and avoid any unneeded exercise, but on nights like these he could make the exception when with company.

Sans was about to bring up some conversation with the fellow canine when something had caught his attention and by contrast with his movements earlier, his skull snapped towards the direction of what presumably was the snapping of a branch and the utterance of someone.
'That's different.' he thought to himself.

He was very good at his job after all, despite what many might have assumed.

"Hey." he called out to the monster before casting Lupina a wary side-glance of caution and then continued, "Everything okay there?"

Undyne gave a simultaneous shrug and pulled an expression showing that she understood and felt his response was also fair. He might be a bit of an enigma, but even enigmas have personal things they're not obligated to share too.

"Hmm," she hummed with a thoughtful frown, "I suppose that's true. No sense in worrying about what ifs now. This time I've been informed, vest if I make the most of it."

She then quirked an eyebrow at the expressed caution; if anything it couldn't help but rouse suspicion for the fish monster. The Captain would heed his advice, though perhaps she might give Alphys a call to check up on her at some point, just to make sure she's okay. The blue monster didn't quite trust the armored being just yet afterall.
"Sure, Sans first it is then."

Undyne then nodded at his words, grateful for it and instilling more confidence in the scaled warrior. Finally a toothy grin flashed at her fishy lips as a chuckled reverberated from her, "Well that's what I'm here for, to stop the ugly from happening." the Captain asserted before turning to face the deeper depths of Waterfall and started to make her way out of the ruins.

The way her bare feet challenged the sharp debris and cobblestone, crushing the smaller pieces in defiance - despite protests her feet cried for - was oddly symbolic in a way; for this mysterious too had just pulled her out of the wreckage, "Yeah I'll be fine and thank you. You might have been an jackass before but you're alright. Take care of yourself."
With that the heroine was gone, carrying much thought with her as she went.

A fpggy breath exhaled through the teeth of the ever-smiling skeleton on this cool night in Snowdin. The stout monster shuffled leisurely  through the snow, and as always, with his hands in his pockets.

Soon enough, he was within view of the canine sentry, to which he gave a lazy wave of a greeting and spoke up once he was within earshot. He was late, but thankfully not late , "'Sup?" Sans drawled out casually, "Been a while since I last went on patrol, so it's nice to have some company. Ready to go?"

”Mm, maybe it does maybe it doesn't. I have my reasons.” Both a reaction and an example, quite amazingly put too.

Letting Undyne process her thoughts aloud, the enigma in white simply nodded. It was, as colourfully as Undyne said 'such bullshit'— and she wasn't even among those that experienced it in a direct fashion like Sans for instance. ”Indeed; it would be exhausting. I can confirm that it is exactly that... However, waste of time?” The armored one shook his head. ”Not at all a waste of time. A direct explanation doesn't always give the best results. Always caused paranoia, unrest, panic, et cetera.” No doubt something Undyne as Captain of the guard wanted to avoid completely if able.

Undyne was always pretty proactive on things like this, a very welcome occurrence. ”Good, you should talk to Sans first. Doooon't talk to Alphys just yet.” There he was again, speaking as if he knew something. ”I mean, you won't be able to most likely. Hard to explain— its mostly her work schedule conflicting with yours for a good while; it is not my place to tell you what she knows. Just go to Sans first, okay?”

Her thoughts on Asgore were interesting too. She was right, if Asgore didn't deviate from the original plan, well... Not much good could possibly come of it. ”Hah, 'this time', how topical. True though, seems like that is how it is.” Perhaps Undyne could get through to Asgore in the end. Only time would tell, as it always has. ”You're lucky, your faith is more or less well placed at the moment. I hope it stays that way. When it doesn't, and he ends up the exact opposite of what you believe... Things get ugly.”

The mysterious monster folded his arms and gave Undyne one last look over. ”Do you think you'll be alright now, then?”