That's a strange question to ask. "Are we... not talking now?" He has to ask, before he realizes what she likely means. "About... something painful, and difficult?"

Yeah... yeah. Interacting with family, when they don't remember you, is painful. And it's likely just as painful, in different ways, to be the person who know they should remember but can't. Hard enough for friends, but for people with so few loved ones, to lose the only ones they have...

Well. Papyrus isn't in any rush to befriend the music labels.