Chara lowers to the ground once more, landing on their old brown mary janes with the gold button clasps, their socks just as tattered and faded by time as their green and yellow sweater is, so akin to the many similar sweaters in Toriel's wardrobes.
They wipe their leaking eyes and mouth on their sleeve as the flowers wilt and fall off. Whatever was dripping soon ceases. Their eye re-emerges into its usual place.
Those brown eyes study Frisk intenty, a small smile lifting Chara's pale lips, which had also been wiped clean of the yellow stains the flowers they'd once consumed incidentally when they'd intended to wipe off the dark goop.
Their smile is strained. It doesn't meet their eyes. Something odd and subtle knits their eyebrows together, some sort of feeling seeing Frisk cry had inflicted.
"Quit crying, you baby. I've seen you do some terrible things. I mean, of course you would. That's the human way." They sneer. "You don't get to cry after that. Not with your perverse sentimentality, coming back again and again, making sure you got every last one,..."
"... Unless you didn't do it. You're, what,... Five years old?" They teased dryly, despite being well aware Frisk was about their age. "Then again, that doesn't mean anything. I've done a lot, too, and I'm still a kid. But you'd always drag yourself around like you were already dead, and your skin had this weird, gross look to it like something was squirming under it... It was really creepy."
"I'm not stupid, Frisk. I've known there's something more to you, something looking at me through your eyes. After seeing it do it all over and over, observing its behaviors, trying to figure out what its goals could possibly be,... All it seemed to care about was making all the numbers go up. Wiping everyone out, making me stronger so we could reach the highest point,... just trying to see what happened if they did all that."
"...For a while, I wanted to get stronger. I wanted to see what happened, too. But I thought it'd choose to erase everything when it was done. I thought it'd be satisfied. I didn't understand why it'd want to ruin everything and then come back and pretend to be a good person, like it hadn't done all that... But I realize now that, maybe, that thing inside you felt some sort of pathetic sense of guilt and thought returning and pretending everything was normal would fix it, would save everyone it'd hurt, as if that was a point it could come back from, redeem itself for."
"...During all that, I'd never seen you cry. You'd barely made an expression. I could hardly tell you were even a human anymore. But now,... Now? You're just about bawling your eyes out! It's gone, isn't it?... Or maybe it's still in there, just waiting, watching everything. That's so fucked up."
They stepped closer, head tilted, watching Frisk's face like they were attempting to peek through a misted window.