"We're not quite so-" She imitated the growl with a soft laugh, genuinely amused. "as stories might make us out to be. You are right though, I am not wearing a mask."

Toriel stilled after the admission. She never was one to hide her own nature, but she remembered the war between humans a monsters, the creation of the barrier. Some humans just wouldn't care for her kind.

"Is that alright, my child?"