Frisk flails in the skeleton's iron-hard grapple, but it's more for show than anything else. It's been too long since they've had a good, ol'-fashioned skelehug. Despite how Papyrus was made out of bone, he was a surprisingly good hugger.

"Yeah. If there's one thing this whole fiasco has taught me, it's that you guys--all you guys--are way too important for me to just abandon. I'm, um. Sorry about that, by the way. After the whole thing with other Frisk, I just... needed... space. Well, not really, I just wanted to avoid my problems, but. Still." They chuckle nervously, rubbing the back of their head.