Another tiny flinch, seeing his hands twitch, and Frisk slowly looks back up at him, hiding their eyes behind the lower fringe of their bangs.

"Mm...mmm."

Determination. It's what fuels them, drives them, what has kept them moving forward their whole life. Whether to take care of their Mama, or survive home after home after home, or climb a mountain no one returns from, or to come back from death itself until they find a happy ending...it's etched into their very SOUL, glowing red and strong.

Their pain...it isn't important. Not when they have something waiting for them to return to.