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'ℋ𝑜𝓌 𝓁𝑜𝓃𝑔 𝒽𝒶𝓈 𝒾𝓉 𝒷𝑒𝑒𝓃~?'

Opening her eyes, the child slowly adjusted to the room's dim atmosphere. Though she felt the wetness of tears in her eyes.

Well... She wasn't surprised to have been crying in her sleep, no..

It has happened many times before, though now...

For a different reason.

Against her back she could feel a soft mattress; it rested beneath her fingertips, though notably cold to the touch. She groaned softly, sitting up as the recollection of her memories slowly flooded back, and her hand reached up to wipe those lingering tears away.

She was here,

with them,

alone.

Without any other humans

It's just her...

The room was oddly more soothing, despite the darkness shrouding over every corner. Maybe it was the silence.. Though the silence was odd to her..

'𝒜𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝑔𝑜𝓃𝑒~?'

Her eyes scanned over the area as she listened closely for any single sound.

...

...

...

There was nothing...

Not a single sound...

The whole room remained in dead silence, and beyond the door was no different.

"𝔐𝔥.."

She threw her legs over the side of the bed, having they felt more valiant after being rested. She glanced down; her brown travel-bag lied horizontally against the wooden floor. It would have only been ....what....a few minutes? Maybe a little longer...? She didn't feel like she slept for very long and yet her body felt rested.. It was strange..

She reached down, grasping her bag as a deplorable sigh slid through her teeth. She slipped the bag strap over her head, having it rest against her shoulder. Now that she was rested, there would be no point to staying in this room. She stood up, feeling the cold wood beneath her bare feet as she ambled towards the door, pausing briefly before touching the knob. What happens after this? All she wanted to do was get to the front door..and leave..it would be mean...to leave.. She was i n v i t e d in here after all... But she didn't want to worry about that right now.. Staying anywhere near S a n s was what she couldn't stand.

She took a deep breath, wrapping her fingers around the frigid metal knob and slowly turned it, listening as the door let out it's sonorous 'creak~'. She peeked her head out, glancing down the hall towards the staircase. It was so close yet so far.. But even so, she couldn't see a single being around, and so, she pushed the door opened some more and slipped out, keeping her attention set firmly on the staircase.

"*whαt αrє чσu dσíng?"

She froze, hearing that same deep voice that chilled her bones time and time again before. She didn't want to pay him any mind..she wanted to ignore him..but..she knew it would be a fatal mistake. But what was there to say?

She slowly turned her head and looked through the balcony's bars. Of course, Sans was there. He was lying on the living room couch, eyeing her with an acutely large amount of suspicion. It made her feel a little more compelled to stay muted but at the same time, she didn't want him to think she was up to anything bad.. His austere gaze made it clear he didn't trust her.

"𝔒𝔥...ℑ....𝔧𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔴𝔬𝔨𝔢 𝔲𝔭 𝔞𝔫𝔡..𝔴𝔢𝔩𝔩, ℑ 𝔡𝔦𝔡𝔫'𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔨 ℑ 𝔰𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔩𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 𝔦𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔯𝔬𝔬𝔪 𝔰𝔦𝔫𝔠𝔢 ℑ 𝔴𝔞𝔰𝔫'𝔱 ..𝔱𝔦𝔯𝔢𝔡 𝔞𝔫𝔶𝔪𝔬𝔯𝔢..𝔰𝔬 ℑ 𝔩𝔢𝔣𝔱.." She explained, though her occasional pauses didn't help her appear any less suspicious. Sans would only stare at her as if she had been blurting out unintelligible nonsense to him this whole time.. "*whαt αrє чσu plαnníng?" He asked, cutting his eyes if only slightly at her. "I'm not planning anything!" She stated as if she were firm on her word.

"ℑ 𝔥𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔫𝔬 𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔬𝔫 𝔱𝔬 𝔭𝔩𝔞𝔫 𝔞𝔫𝔶𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤. ℑ 𝔰𝔦𝔪𝔭𝔩𝔶 𝔧𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔴𝔬𝔨𝔢 𝔲𝔭 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔡𝔦𝔡𝔫'𝔱 𝔴𝔞𝔫𝔱 𝔱𝔬 𝔩𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 𝔦𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔯𝔬𝔬𝔪...𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔦𝔰 𝔞𝔩𝔩."

It felt like her sentences were worded thoughtlessly, as she really had no other excuse to be out of that room.. "*hm.." Sans was uncomfortably silent for a moment, taking in what she said and how she said it.. Though it didn't mean much to him. She still seemed suspicious. "*σk thєn."

'ℳ𝒶𝓎𝒷𝑒 𝒽𝑒 𝒷𝑒𝓁𝒾𝑒𝓋𝑒𝒹 𝓂𝑒?'

She would think to herself, though never being able to say it for sure, she turned her attention away from him and proceeded to walk towards the staircase.

"*thєn whєrє αrє чσu gσíng?" Once more, he questioned her suddenly, not giving her a moment to think. But..she wanted to leave.. Leave this house and leave him behind. However, if she even attempts to leave Sans' suspicion would grow more..or maybe something worse may happen. "ℑ'𝔪..𝔥𝔬𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔩𝔶 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔤𝔬𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔞𝔫𝔶𝔴𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢.." She said, whilst leasurily making her way down the stairs.

At this rate she really couldn't get to the front door.. She mosied into the living room and slowly sat herself down on the floor, being a safe distance away from him. ℑ'𝔩𝔩 𝔧𝔲𝔰𝔱...𝔰𝔦𝔱 𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢...𝔦𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔱𝔯𝔬𝔲𝔟𝔩𝔢𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢." She wanted to believe that if she stayed within his line of sight, he would have no reason to call her suspicious. "*...σk thєn.."

There was an unsettling silence that slowly ensued over them, though for a moment it was more of a relief than anything. The girls fingers entertwined and she placed them in her lap neatly as she examined the room.

A tv, a couch, a small table.. And an open archway.. There wasn't much else, though it would feel like the atmosphere was much more unsettling looking towards the open archway as it appeared to lead into a room of complete darkness.. The child didn't like it at all, and merely turned away from it silently gazing at her hands.

"*ѕσ whαt єlѕє dσ чσu wαnt?" Sans quizzed once more, noticing her glancing around excessively.

Each time he asked her something she felt just a little bit more tense. Anything she says could be fatal.. But remaining in silence is worse in several ways.

"ℑ 𝔧𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔴𝔦𝔰𝔥 𝔱𝔬 𝔩𝔬𝔬𝔨 𝔞𝔯𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔡 𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔞 𝔩𝔦𝔱𝔱𝔩𝔢...𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔪 𝔲𝔭 𝔞 𝔟𝔦𝔱 𝔦𝔣 𝔬𝔣 𝔠𝔬𝔲𝔯𝔰𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱'𝔰 𝔬𝔨𝔦..." Her eyes would slowly meet his mere red iris as she continued to ask; "𝔅𝔶 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔴𝔞𝔶, 𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔰𝔲𝔰𝔭𝔦𝔠𝔦𝔬𝔲𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔪𝔢, 𝔬𝔯 𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔯𝔢𝔪𝔬𝔱𝔢𝔩𝔶 𝔰𝔦𝔪𝔦𝔩𝔞𝔯 𝔱𝔬 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱...?"

"*índєєd í αm, í dσn't truѕt чσu humαnѕ, nσt єvєn α вít, αnd í hαvє mч rєαѕσnѕ whч." It wouldn't take him long to reply, and it felt as if every lingering word he spoke was filled to the brink with undeniable truth. She could feel it and see it as clear as day; he didn't trust humans. He didn't care about them. But really.. all humans? It didn't seem right.. "𝔒𝔥..ℑ 𝔰𝔢𝔢..." Her words fell out slowly but softly. She didn't want to think he would always hate humans.. Maybe someday he would change.. But how would she know?

"𝔚𝔢𝔩𝔩, ℑ 𝔴𝔬𝔫'𝔱 𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔠𝔢 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔱𝔬 𝔟𝔢𝔩𝔦𝔢𝔳𝔢 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔠𝔞𝔫 𝔱𝔯𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔪𝔢...𝔪𝔬𝔰𝔱𝔩𝔶 𝔟𝔢𝔠𝔞𝔲𝔰𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔟𝔩𝔞𝔫𝔨𝔩𝔶 𝔦𝔪𝔭𝔬𝔰𝔰𝔦𝔟𝔩𝔢. 𝔅𝔲𝔱 ℑ'𝔪 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔱𝔯𝔶𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔬 𝔟𝔢 𝔞 𝔱𝔥𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔱 𝔱𝔬 𝔶𝔬𝔲, 𝔞𝔫𝔶𝔴𝔞𝔶. ℑ𝔣 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔡𝔬𝔫'𝔱 𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔡 𝔟𝔢𝔩𝔦𝔢𝔳𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱 𝔥 𝔞 𝔱 𝔦𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔩𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔱...𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔫...- 𝔟𝔲𝔱 𝔦𝔱'𝔰 𝔬𝔨𝔦 𝔦𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔟𝔢𝔩𝔦𝔢𝔳𝔞𝔟𝔩𝔢." After finishing talking the room fell back into uncurable silence; Sans' piercing gaze was more like a look of surprise, though the silence made it feel worse.

....

Before she could open her mouth to say another feeble word she was taken back by Sans bursting out in an insensitively sonorous fit of laughter. It was like everything she said was nothing more than a joke to him, an unbelievably stupid one at that. "𝔐𝔶..." She didn't want to say another word now. What would be the point? He isn't taking her seriously.

Eventually his laughter settled down though it didn't make her believe it meant anything good. "*thαt'ѕ rєαllч funnч cσmíng frσm α humαn líkє ч σ u."

He told her, blankly blurting out his opinion.

The words could distintly feel like they weren't fully directed towards her.. But she couldn't help but feel a bit offended.. She hadn't done anything to him.. So to say that? Like he k n o w s her as being a bad seed.. It was more crushing than she would have liked. "ℌ𝔲𝔪𝔞𝔫 𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔪𝔢, 𝔥𝔲𝔥.." She narrowed her eyes a little, keeping herself as calm as she could. She wasn't in immedient danger.. But Sans' words felt more venomous than anyone else's that she'd ever heard. "𝔄𝔰𝔰𝔲𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔤 I'𝔪 𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔬𝔫𝔢 𝔰𝔢𝔩𝔣𝔦𝔰𝔥 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔴𝔬-𝔣𝔞𝔠𝔢𝔡, ℑ'𝔪 𝔤𝔲𝔢𝔰𝔰𝔦𝔫𝔤."

"*єvєrчσnє σf чσu αrє thє ѕαmє. nσthíng mσrє, nσthíng lєѕѕ." As he said this so bluntly, it would seem he was recollecting bottled up memories of the past. The words felt strickened with anger though hid behind his uncannily careless tone.

'...𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝒶𝓂𝑒...?

ℋ𝑜𝓌 𝓈𝓉𝓇𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒...ℋ𝒾𝓈 𝒸𝒽𝑜𝒾𝒸𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝒹𝓈...𝓊𝓈𝒾𝓃𝑔 "𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝒶𝓂𝑒" 𝓉𝑜 𝒹𝑒𝓈𝒸𝓇𝒾𝒷𝑒 𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝒽𝓊𝓂𝒶𝓃𝓈?

𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒'𝓈 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑒𝓁𝓈𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉..'

As she thought this to herself she would think about what to say. Conceiving her sentence, she could tell something was on his mind..but to pry? It might not be the most clever an idea.. But being she was gifted with exceptional perceptiveness, she wanted to exceed the current level of knowledge he had her at; knowing too little.

"𝔘-𝔘𝔪.. 𝔓𝔩𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔢..𝔠𝔬𝔯𝔯𝔢𝔠𝔱 𝔪𝔢 𝔦𝔣 ℑ'𝔪 𝔴𝔯𝔬𝔫𝔤...𝔟𝔲𝔱...𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔴𝔞𝔶 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔰𝔞𝔶 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔦𝔫 𝔰𝔲𝔠𝔥 𝔞 𝔴𝔞𝔶 𝔪𝔞𝔨𝔢𝔰 𝔪𝔢 𝔴𝔬𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔯 𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤..." As she paused she glanced up to notice his piercing gaze did not even acknowledge her as she spoke, he remained filed inside his own recollections. "...𝔡𝔦𝔡...𝔞 𝔥𝔲𝔪𝔞𝔫...𝔡𝔬 𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔬 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔱𝔬 𝔪𝔞𝔨𝔢 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔟𝔢𝔩𝔦𝔢𝔳𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱?" As soon as she finished her question, he shot his full attention towards her as if he were truly surprised by her being inextricably apt towards his vagueness. He hadn't even mentioned meeting a human and yet her question would prove that she caught onto him having done so.

"*...thєч αrє α t r α í t σ r. lєft uѕ hєrє tσ d í є. thєч mαdє α prσmíѕє αnd l є f t u ѕ." Every word he spoke through gritting teeth was filled with hatred and deadly spite. It felt like every sentence was riding on his boiling anger as he reviled his recollections. "𝔗𝔥𝔢𝔶...𝔩𝔢𝔣𝔱 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔞𝔩𝔩?" She found this a bit sad ..to think he didn't want anything to do with her because a human before her broke a promise to them... It must of been a big promise for him to still dwell on it..right?

"𝔄𝔫𝔡 𝔶𝔬𝔲...𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔲𝔪𝔢..𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔥𝔲𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔰 𝔴𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔡𝔬 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔞𝔪𝔢;...𝔩𝔢𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔶𝔬𝔲. 𝔄𝔫𝔡 𝔰𝔬 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔦𝔰 𝔴𝔥𝔶 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔡𝔬𝔫'𝔱 𝔬𝔯...𝔠𝔞𝔫'𝔱..𝔱𝔯𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔪𝔢?"

"*чєp." He replied bluntly.

It didn't feel right to be nothing because of something someone else did..but what could she do... Then again... Why did she come down here anyway? No, it wasn't intentional.. It was an accident... But now that she was here..it felt ...better..than being on the surface. "𝔚𝔢𝔩𝔩,...𝔟𝔢𝔩𝔦𝔢𝔳𝔢 𝔪𝔢 𝔬𝔯 𝔫𝔬𝔱...ℑ 𝔡𝔬𝔫'𝔱 𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔶 𝔠𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔞𝔟𝔬𝔲𝔱 𝔤𝔬𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔟𝔞𝔠𝔨 𝔥𝔬𝔪𝔢 𝔞𝔫𝔶𝔴𝔞𝔶. 𝔖𝔬 𝔴𝔥𝔞𝔱𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯 𝔥𝔞𝔭𝔭𝔢𝔫𝔰, 𝔥𝔞𝔭𝔭𝔢𝔫𝔰. ℑ 𝔭𝔯𝔬𝔟𝔞𝔟𝔩𝔶 𝔴𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡𝔫 𝔱𝔞𝔨𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔬𝔭𝔭𝔬𝔯𝔱𝔲𝔫𝔦𝔱𝔶 𝔱𝔬 𝔯𝔢𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔫 𝔟𝔞𝔠𝔨 𝔦𝔣 ℑ 𝔠𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡."

Saying this, she felt like a morbid being... But she had her own reasons..in a way, she felt...safer..down here..than she did up there, upon the surface.. How strange.

"*whч íѕ thαt?"

She became silent, slowly sliding her knees up to her chest and clenching them tightly. She didn't like talking about her life... She had nothing to hide personally.. But issues resurrected in her village, in her home.. She merely didn't want the memories to flood back. "*tєll mє. dσn't вє ѕhч." He pushed it, grinning, as he could tell this topic was sensitive for her.

She put her head down against her knees, shielding her face away from him. "ℑ...𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔶...𝔡𝔬𝔫'𝔱 𝔴𝔞𝔫𝔱 𝔱𝔬...𝔢𝔵𝔭𝔩𝔞𝔦𝔫 𝔦𝔱 𝔦𝔫 𝔡𝔢𝔱𝔞𝔦𝔩.."

"*hєhє, αlríght, whαtєvєr ѕuítѕ чσu."

He didn't further it..maybe he just lost interest.. But it was a relief to her. Though.. The silence was too much to handle as of right now.. "𝔄-𝔄𝔫𝔶𝔴𝔞𝔶...𝔲𝔪..ℑ'𝔳𝔢..𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔩𝔦𝔷𝔢𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 ℑ'𝔳𝔢 𝔫𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯 𝔰𝔞𝔦𝔡...𝔴𝔥𝔬 ℑ 𝔴𝔞𝔰...𝔴𝔥𝔦-𝔴𝔥𝔦𝔠𝔥 ..𝔦𝔰 𝔦𝔪𝔭𝔯𝔬𝔭𝔢𝔯 𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫𝔢𝔯𝔰." she stuttered out in a softened tone. She merely wanted to change this conversation topic to something else...anything else.. And this was the first thing to come to mind.

"*ѕαmє hєrє, í'm ѕαnѕ." He stated. She felt a little bit surprised.. He gave his name so bluntly.. She didn't even expect him to give her the first letter of his name but, why would she complain? She knew something else about him now - his name. "𝔐𝔥...𝔖𝔞𝔫𝔰...𝔬𝔨𝔦...ℑ'𝔪 𝔏𝔞𝔲𝔯𝔦𝔦,...𝔏𝔞𝔲𝔯𝔦𝔦 𝔉𝔩𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔯𝔰.. ..𝔡𝔢𝔰𝔭𝔦𝔱𝔢 ℑ 𝔨𝔫𝔬𝔴 𝔦𝔱'𝔰 𝔞 𝔩𝔦𝔱𝔱𝔩𝔢 𝔩𝔞𝔱𝔢 𝔱𝔬 𝔰𝔞𝔶 𝔦𝔱 - 𝔲𝔪.. ℑ𝔱'𝔰.. 𝔑𝔦𝔠𝔢 𝔱𝔬 𝔪𝔞𝔨𝔢 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔞𝔮𝔲𝔞𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔫𝔠𝔢.."

"*ѕαmє gσєѕ fσr чσu." He said.

It felt good to hear those words.. But Laurii didn't truly know how sincere they were. But he doesn't care about her..so why would he bother lying? If he didn't agree that it was nice to meet, he'd surely say something else...right?

"𝔜𝔞𝔶.." She muttered softly, feeling as if progress had been made. "𝔖𝔬..ℑ 𝔨𝔫𝔬𝔴 ℑ'𝔪 𝔟𝔢𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔞 𝔟𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔱𝔬 𝔶𝔬𝔲...𝔟𝔲𝔱 𝔪𝔞𝔶 ℑ 𝔞𝔰𝔨 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔢𝔩𝔰𝔢..?" She asked, feeling a pinch of dread towards what she wanted to ask.

"*whαt íѕ ít?"

For a moment..she contemplated not asking this.. Maybe she didn't really want an answer.. But even if that was the case, she has to put it aside. "𝔚𝔢𝔩𝔩, ...𝔦𝔣 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔠𝔞𝔫'𝔱 𝔱𝔯𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔥𝔲𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔰 𝔞𝔱 𝔞𝔩𝔩...𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔫 𝔴𝔥𝔶 𝔡𝔦𝔡𝔫'𝔱 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔧𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔨𝔦𝔩𝔩 𝔪𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔣𝔦𝔯𝔰𝔱 𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢 ℑ 𝔪𝔢𝔱 𝔶𝔬𝔲? 𝔜𝔬𝔲 𝔥𝔞𝔡 𝔞𝔫 𝔬𝔭𝔢𝔫 𝔬𝔭𝔭𝔬𝔯𝔱𝔲𝔫𝔦𝔱𝔶 𝔞𝔣𝔱𝔢𝔯 𝔞𝔩𝔩..."

The question didn't seem to bother Sans at all..his grin grew a bit. "*í líkє tσ mαkє mч prєч ѕuffєr αnd ѕcαrєd. thєn kíll thєm."

"𝔐𝔥...𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔰𝔲𝔯𝔭𝔯𝔦𝔰𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔪𝔢 𝔞𝔱 𝔞𝔩𝔩 ... ...𝔞𝔫𝔡 ℑ 𝔤𝔲𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱'𝔰 𝔴𝔥𝔞𝔱 ℑ 𝔞𝔪 𝔦𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔰𝔦𝔱𝔲𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫.." She would say with slight uncertainty, though feeling as if she couldn't be more correct.

"*mαчвє" He laughed a bit, beginning to scroll through his phone.

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The unsettling silence ensued the room once more..the only dull sound was Sans' humming as he spinned a sharp blade around in-between his skeletal fingers. Laurii glanced around, observing the room once more, muted. She wouldn't admit it but Sans' humming was oddly enough to help her conceive what to say next. "...𝔪𝔪𝔥..." She let out a deplorable sigh. It was bad enough she still couldn't get to the front door without Sans' suspicion growing on her.. Now she has gone silent, unable to think of something to say to him..?

It wasn't acceptable.. She needed to ask something, say something.. Anything.. She needed to learn more. Glancing at Sans, she observed him as she had done before.. Even when at his state of ataraxy, he was still incredibly unsettling..

"ℑ'𝔳𝔢...𝔟𝔢𝔢𝔫...𝔴𝔬𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤...𝔦𝔰 ..𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔥𝔬𝔴 𝔩𝔦𝔣𝔢 𝔥𝔞𝔰 𝔞𝔩𝔴𝔞𝔶𝔰 𝔟𝔢𝔢𝔫 𝔡𝔬𝔴𝔫 𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢?" Laurii finally asked, though it took more courage than she had to blurt out such a question.

Sans would only pause, his grin slowly fading away. "*σh, ít hαѕ вєєn wσrѕє, вut ѕαmє ѕítuαtíσn." He explained.

"𝔚𝔬𝔯𝔰𝔢...? ℌ𝔬𝔴..𝔠𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔦𝔱 𝔬𝔣 𝔟𝔢𝔢𝔫 𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔰𝔢? ℑ𝔣...ℑ 𝔪𝔞𝔶 𝔞𝔰𝔨." She questioned, though she didn't know if she s h o u l d be pushing it. But as long as she is getting answers she will continue to wonder.

"*mσnѕtєrѕ вєggíng αnd dчíng lєft αnd ríght."

"𝔗𝔥𝔞𝔱'𝔰.. 𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔯𝔦𝔟𝔩𝔢.." She stated, "𝔟𝔲𝔱...𝔴𝔥𝔶?...𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔶 𝔰𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡𝔫 𝔬𝔣 𝔟𝔢𝔢𝔫 𝔡𝔶𝔦𝔫𝔤--"

"*ѕtαrvíng. thє cσrє whích kєpt uѕ mσѕtlч αlívє ѕtσppєd wσrkíng."

At this point, it felt a little bit more sadder than before.. The reason behind all of this was over starvation.. "𝔒𝔥..𝔞𝔫𝔡..𝔶𝔢𝔱..𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔰𝔱𝔦𝔩𝔩 𝔞𝔩𝔦𝔳𝔢..𝔦𝔱 𝔴𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔰𝔢𝔢𝔪... 𝔄𝔫𝔡 ℑ 𝔠𝔞𝔫 𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔲𝔪𝔢 ℑ 𝔨𝔫𝔬𝔴 𝔥𝔬𝔴 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔦𝔰.."

Sans let out a somber sigh as if the resort they all had to come to; human consumption- actually bothered him in a way. "*чєp."

For a brief moment he went silent, making it seem as if he was dwelling inbetween his thoughts once again.. But before long, he grinned looking back at her. "*í mαdє ѕσmє rulєѕ fσr thíѕ tσwn ѕσ wє cαn ѕurvívє." He announced, changing the subject in a way.

"𝔒𝔥, 𝔯𝔲𝔩𝔢𝔰? ...𝔴𝔢𝔩𝔩...𝔴𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔶? ℑ𝔣 ℑ 𝔪𝔞𝔶 𝔞𝔰𝔨..." She would mentally scorn herself for asking this.. One part of her didn't want an answer..but if the answer chills her bones in any way, it was obvious Sans wouldn't hesitate to tell her.

"*wєll fírѕt íѕ tσ nσt tєll thє quєєn αвσut thє rulєѕ. - ѕєcσnd íѕ tσ ѕhαrє thє fσσd wíth σthєrѕ. - αnd thírd íѕ tσ cαpturє thє humαn íf ѕєєn."

Laurii felt a cold sweat run down her cheek. Just as expected; she really shouldn't of bothered asking.

"𝔒..𝔨𝔦...𝔰𝔬..𝔱𝔬 𝔟𝔢 𝔣𝔞𝔦𝔯, 𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯𝔶𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔣𝔦𝔫𝔢 𝔢𝔵𝔠𝔢𝔭𝔱 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔩𝔞𝔰𝔱 𝔯𝔲𝔩𝔢. 𝔘𝔪- ..𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔬𝔟𝔳𝔦𝔬𝔲𝔰 𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔬𝔫𝔰.."

"*hєhє, í knσw." Sans uttered in response.

Laurii thought for a moment- every time she began a conversation with him it always turns out to be more uncomfortable for her than how it started. Though, she valued what she was gathering from him. She didn't want to stop just yet. She was learning too much to give up. "𝔅𝔶 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔴𝔞𝔶...𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫𝔢𝔡 𝔟𝔢𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔢 𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔞𝔟𝔬𝔲𝔱 𝔞 𝔔𝔲𝔢𝔢𝔫, 𝔯𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱?"

Sans narrowed his eye sockets, glimpsing in her direction. "*чєα αnd whαt αвσut hєr?" In a sense, the way he said that made it seem like he didn't care too much for discussing the Queen. In fact, in a way, it seemed like it vexed him if only slightly. Though this alone didn't deter her.

"𝔚𝔢𝔩𝔩, 𝔴𝔥𝔢𝔫 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔱𝔬𝔩𝔡 𝔪𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔬𝔰𝔢 𝔯𝔲𝔩𝔢𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯𝔰, 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔭𝔯𝔦𝔪𝔞𝔯𝔦𝔩𝔶 𝔰𝔞𝔦𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔣𝔦𝔯𝔰𝔱 𝔬𝔫𝔢 𝔴𝔞𝔰 𝔫 𝔬 𝔱 𝔱𝔬 𝔱𝔢𝔩𝔩 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔔𝔲𝔢𝔢𝔫 𝔞𝔟𝔬𝔲𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔯𝔲𝔩𝔢𝔰. 𝔚𝔥𝔦𝔠𝔥, 𝔟𝔞𝔰𝔢𝔡 𝔬𝔫 𝔴𝔥𝔞𝔱 ℑ 𝔠𝔞𝔫 𝔤𝔞𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱, 𝔢𝔦𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔪𝔢𝔞𝔫𝔰 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔯𝔢𝔟𝔢𝔩𝔩𝔦𝔬𝔲𝔰, 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔬𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔶 𝔡𝔦𝔰𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔥𝔢𝔯, 𝔬𝔯... 𝔰𝔥𝔢'𝔰 𝔪𝔢𝔞𝔫... ℑ𝔣 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔯𝔢𝔟𝔢𝔩𝔩𝔦𝔬𝔲𝔰 𝔬𝔯 𝔡𝔦𝔰𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔫... 𝔜𝔬𝔲 𝔭𝔯𝔬𝔟𝔞𝔟𝔩𝔶 𝔴𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔱𝔢𝔩𝔩 𝔥𝔢𝔯...𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔯𝔲𝔩𝔢𝔰...𝔞𝔪..ℑ 𝔴𝔯𝔬𝔫𝔤?"

"*чσu αrє ríght." He stated.

"ℌ𝔪𝔪.. ℑ 𝔰𝔢𝔢.. 𝔚𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔪𝔞𝔨𝔢𝔰 𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔰𝔬... 𝔅𝔞𝔡 𝔬𝔯 𝔡𝔦𝔰𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔞𝔟𝔩𝔢? ℑ𝔰 𝔰𝔥𝔢 𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔞 𝔡𝔦𝔠𝔱𝔞𝔱𝔬𝔯...? 𝔒𝔯 𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤.." She questioned it further, being oblivious to how deeply she was dwelling with all these questions.

"*thє quєєn. ѕhє íѕ thє quєєn." Sans replied bluntly. It didn't answer her question directly..but in a sense it felt like it was meant to be obvious why he didn't like her.. But it wasn't.

"𝔄𝔫𝔡...𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔡𝔦𝔰𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔬𝔫?; 𝔰𝔥𝔢'𝔰 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔔𝔲𝔢𝔢𝔫..."

"*nσ. ѕhє ѕtσlє thє fσσd αnd ѕhє íѕ kєєpíng ít tσ hєrѕєlf."

This singular reason felt like a sensible reason not to favor the Queen...but even so...was that all?

"𝔒𝔥.. 𝔗𝔥𝔢𝔫 𝔦𝔫 𝔰𝔦𝔪𝔭𝔩𝔢 𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔪𝔰...𝔰𝔥𝔢'𝔰 𝔞 𝔰𝔢𝔩𝔣𝔦𝔰𝔥 𝔔𝔲𝔢𝔢𝔫.." It would seem obvious to her.. She wouldn't care too much for the Queen either.. But she doesn't know enough about her other than t h i s to judge her. "*чєѕ. αnd ѕhє íѕ quítє α вullч." Sans added. "ℌ𝔞𝔰...𝔰𝔥𝔢 𝔞𝔩𝔴𝔞𝔶𝔰 𝔟𝔢𝔢𝔫 𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱?" "*nσpє, nєvєr."

Hearing this, Laurii would try to think for a moment about a reason behind all the Queen's misdeeds and such..

"ℑ...𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔲𝔪𝔢 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔤𝔲𝔶'𝔰 ...𝔣𝔬𝔬𝔡 𝔡𝔢𝔭𝔩𝔢𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫 𝔥𝔞𝔰 𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔬 𝔡𝔬 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔫𝔤𝔦𝔫𝔤... 𝔅𝔢𝔠𝔞𝔲𝔰𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔴𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔬𝔣... ℑ 𝔴𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔬𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔲𝔪𝔢, 𝔟𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔱𝔥 𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔯𝔶 𝔬𝔣 𝔞 𝔰𝔬𝔯𝔱... 𝔗𝔬𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔡𝔰 𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔟𝔢𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔢 𝔰𝔥𝔢 𝔴𝔞𝔰..𝔪𝔢𝔞𝔫."

"*hєh."

"ℑ 𝔰𝔲𝔭𝔭𝔬𝔰𝔢..𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔡𝔬𝔫'𝔱 𝔟𝔢𝔩𝔦𝔢𝔳𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔲𝔪𝔭𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫.."

"*чєα."

"𝔗𝔥𝔢𝔫 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔥𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔬𝔴𝔫 𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔲𝔪𝔭𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫, 𝔦𝔣 𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔡𝔦𝔰𝔞𝔤𝔯𝔢𝔢𝔞𝔟𝔩𝔢."

"*í guєѕѕ."

At this point she felt worse for believing this place was just a place full of blood thirsty monsters with no sense of humanity..it's much worse for them than she first assumed.

"𝔚𝔢𝔩𝔩...𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔴𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔦𝔱'𝔰 𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔱𝔥...𝔦𝔣 𝔞𝔫𝔶𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤...ℑ'𝔪 𝔰𝔬𝔯𝔯𝔶 𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯𝔶𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔴𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔡𝔬𝔴𝔫𝔥𝔦𝔩𝔩 𝔡𝔬𝔴𝔫 𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢...𝔦𝔱'𝔰 𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔶 𝔲𝔫𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔱𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔱𝔢 𝔱𝔬 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔨 𝔬𝔣 𝔥𝔬𝔴 𝔰𝔬 𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔶 𝔥𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔯𝔳𝔢𝔡 𝔱𝔬 𝔡𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔥...𝔞𝔫𝔡...𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔔𝔲𝔢𝔢𝔫 𝔦𝔰 𝔪𝔢𝔞𝔫...𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱.."

"*ít'ѕ α hαrd lífє." Sans replied as he stretched, though necessarily not having any muscles to stretch as he was just a skeleton. It felt strange in a sense.. Almost each reply he gave had no hint of disquietude in it. He talked to her like he was talking to a friend. Even in this time of tribulation, he showed no sense of worry.. Did it really matter to him? Or maybe it does... But he doesn't care enough to show it? How strange..

"𝔜𝔢𝔞𝔥 𝔟𝔲𝔱...𝔰𝔱𝔦𝔩𝔩 𝔴𝔞𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔡 𝔱𝔬 𝔰𝔞𝔶 𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤...𝔦𝔱'𝔰 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔯𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔩𝔦𝔳𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰."

"*αt lєαѕt ѕhє íѕ ѕtαчíng αwαч, ѕσ ít'ѕ αlríght."

"ℑ 𝔰𝔲𝔭𝔭𝔬𝔰𝔢 𝔰𝔬...ℌ𝔬𝔭𝔢𝔣𝔲𝔩𝔩𝔶 𝔦𝔱 𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔶𝔰 𝔞𝔩𝔯𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱...𝔡𝔬𝔢𝔰𝔫'𝔱 𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔫𝔤𝔢 𝔞𝔫𝔶𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢 𝔰𝔬𝔬𝔫...𝔞𝔱 𝔞𝔩𝔩...𝔟𝔲𝔱...𝔬𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢 𝔠𝔞𝔫 𝔱𝔢𝔩𝔩.."

"*í dσn't thínk αnчthíng wíll chαngє. mαчвє ít wíll gєt wσrѕє."

Laurii narrowed her eyes. His pessimism towards everything she said made her almost want to stop talking to him. But then what? This, and only this is keeping him from filing her out as suspicious.

"...𝔥𝔬𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔩𝔶, 𝔖𝔞𝔫𝔰, ℑ'𝔪 𝔥𝔬𝔭𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔦𝔱 𝔡𝔬𝔢𝔰𝔫'𝔱 𝔤𝔢𝔱 𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔰𝔢...ℑ'𝔪 𝔥𝔬𝔭𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔫𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔤𝔢𝔱𝔰 𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔰𝔢, 𝔦𝔫 𝔣𝔞𝔠𝔱...𝔴𝔥𝔢𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔟𝔢𝔩𝔦𝔢𝔳𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔬𝔯 𝔫𝔬𝔱..ℑ'𝔪 𝔥𝔬𝔭𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔰𝔢 𝔡𝔬𝔢𝔰𝔫'𝔱 𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔢."

"*tσσ вαd чσu cαn't hєlp ít, чσu cαn juѕt cσmє hєrє αnd díє. .. єvєrчσnє íѕ gσnnα díє... í dσn't fєαr ít.."

Though it feels like his pessimism just gets more and more outrageous, it felt a bit understandable.. If they one day run out of food... They will die.. But to be so pessimistic about it..doesn't fix that problem.

Laurii furrowed her brows, she could feel that for the first time being here she was..actually becoming indignant with him. She was nearly at her limit with his careless banter.

"𝔚𝔥𝔢𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔣𝔢𝔞𝔯 𝔦𝔱 𝔬𝔯 𝔫𝔬𝔱, 𝔡𝔬𝔢𝔰𝔫'𝔱 𝔪𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔦𝔱 𝔰𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔥𝔞𝔭𝔭𝔢𝔫! 𝔑𝔬 𝔬𝔫𝔢 𝔰𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔡𝔦𝔢...𝔫𝔬 𝔟𝔬𝔡𝔶 𝔡𝔬𝔴𝔫 𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔰𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔥𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔱𝔬 𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔯𝔶 𝔞𝔟𝔬𝔲𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱....𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔶𝔢𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔶 𝔡𝔬, 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔦𝔱'𝔰 𝔞𝔟𝔰𝔬𝔩𝔲𝔱𝔢𝔩𝔶 𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔯𝔦𝔟𝔩𝔢!" She kept herself from shouting how unjust this whole situation felt to her, she had more sense than to be loud in somebody else's house..but it was no secret that it made her irked.

"*вut thєч dσ, thєч juѕt díє frσm հմηɡεɾ, thєч cαn't ѕurvívє."

"𝔄𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔫 𝔩𝔢𝔱 𝔪𝔢 𝔤𝔲𝔢𝔰𝔰....𝔶𝔬𝔲'𝔯𝔢 𝔤𝔬𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔬 𝔡𝔦𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔞𝔪𝔢 𝔴𝔞𝔶?"

Distinctly she didn't like the idea of him dying of hunger or dying period..but why? This whole time he had done nothing but scare her and make her feel uncomfortable...but knowing the truth about their current anguish made it hard to not care about him.

But hearing this did not faze him, instead, he let out a sudden chuckle.

"*í wαѕ lчíng tσ чσu αвσut ѕσmєthíng.."

With no context, Laurii was left having to ask; ".. ..𝔚𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔦𝔰 𝔦𝔱..?" Though inside, she didn't really want to know..and yet somewhere in her, she was compelled to ask. "*í αm αlrєαdч dєαd. ..вut ѕσmєhσw αlívє αt thє ѕαmє tímє."

'ℋ𝓊𝒽...?'

Hearing this didn't make a lot of sense..how could he be alive but dead? But she couldn't say he was lying..she didn't truly know that and she didn't want to make him mad by calling him a liar.. "𝔜𝔬𝔲'𝔯𝔢...𝔲𝔫..𝔡𝔢𝔞𝔡?" She nervously fumbled out the words, though it sounded stupid for a moment to be asking that of all things. "*prєttч much." He confirmed in a careless tone.

"𝔅𝔲𝔱...𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱'𝔰...𝔦𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔤𝔦𝔠𝔞𝔩 𝔟𝔢𝔠𝔞𝔲𝔰𝔢..𝔦𝔣 𝔶𝔬𝔲'𝔯𝔢 𝔲𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔞𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔫...𝔶𝔬𝔲'𝔯𝔢 𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔫𝔦𝔪𝔞𝔱𝔢𝔡 𝔟𝔶 𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢 𝔱𝔶𝔭𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔫𝔞𝔩 𝔳𝔦𝔯𝔲𝔰 𝔬𝔯 𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤, 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔠𝔞𝔫𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔭𝔯𝔞𝔠𝔱𝔦𝔠𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔶 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔨 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯𝔰𝔢𝔩𝔣 𝔬𝔫𝔢 𝔟𝔦𝔱... ...𝔰𝔬... 𝔗𝔥𝔞𝔱'𝔰 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔠𝔞𝔰𝔢...𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔦𝔪𝔭𝔩𝔢𝔰𝔱 𝔴𝔞𝔶 𝔱𝔬 𝔭𝔲𝔱 𝔦𝔱 𝔦𝔰...𝔦𝔫 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔠𝔞𝔰𝔢 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔧𝔲𝔰𝔱..𝔠𝔥𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔢𝔡 𝔡𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔥."

"*mαчвє í díd" He laughed, "*í'm full σf ѕurpríѕєѕ, hun."

The conversing continued to transpire for a while.. Though most of what Sans said was altered between mean and concerning, Laurii learned a little bit more and more each time he spoke, though maybe he didn't catch onto how much he was teaching her.

But after a while it felt like there wasn't much else to say..not much else to ask.. Though... Laurii was becoming restless.. She needed something to do now...

But what...?

"𝔐𝔥...𝔲𝔪...𝔥𝔢𝔶, 𝔡𝔲𝔪𝔟 𝔮𝔲𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫 𝔟𝔲𝔱...𝔦𝔰 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔞𝔫𝔶𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔬 𝔣𝔦𝔵 𝔞𝔯𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔡 𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢..𝔲𝔪 𝔠𝔩𝔬𝔱𝔥 𝔴𝔦𝔰𝔢?..."

If there was anything she knew better, it was sewing. She held onto a sliver of hope that there was something she could sew in here.. Sans slowly turned to her, glaring at her as if she had said the most senseless thing that she possibly could. "*uh, nσ."

Laurii's hopes felt diminished.. Though maybe it was dumb of her to even ask that in the first place.. "𝔒𝔥...𝔬𝔨𝔦..." She couldn't help but feel extremely bummed out.. For a moment, Sans seemed to consider her despondency..she was offering to sew something without asking for anything further.

He glanced down at the large shredded hole in his shirt for a moment. "*hm, αctuαllч.." He slipped his jacket off and his shirt after, revealing that all he had beneath it was bones, but that was all to be expected.. Harshly, he threw his shirt at her, causing her to throw her hands up to catch it, though flinching only slightly. "*thєrє'ѕα quítє α ríp ín єm'."

She took a moment to examine his shirt indeptly. The rip was immense but it was nothing she couldn't handle. "𝔒𝔥, ℑ 𝔰𝔢𝔢! 𝔄𝔫𝔡...𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔡𝔬𝔫'𝔱 𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔡...𝔦𝔣 ℑ 𝔰𝔢𝔴 𝔦𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔫?"

"*nαh."

She felt a little bit better now having something to do..something helpful.. "𝔐𝔥, 𝔬𝔨𝔦 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔫~!" She reached into her dress's skirt pocket where she had stored a miniature sewing kit and pulled it out. She took out a needle and some thread. As she would begin to sew the hole, she contemplated every stitch she put in..

Before long, she completed her sewing and picking up the shirt, she examined it for a moment. It was nearly perfect and yet she didn't know how well it would be to him..she mustered up every inch of courage she held in and stood up, slowly trailing her way over to him with the shirt clutched tightly in her hands. She trembled only slightly, handing it back to him in silence.

He grabbed his shirt and looked at it for a second..it truly was nearly perfect..much better than he expected, no doubt. He slowly looked at her; the sudden look quickly making her feel almost like she had made a dire mistake somewhere during sewing.. But before long, he grinned, though for a moment it didn't seem like a fiendish grin..was it... genuine for once?

"*nícє jσв, kíddσ."

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'ℋ𝑜𝓌 𝓁𝑜𝓃𝑔 𝒽𝒶𝓈 𝒾𝓉 𝒷𝑒𝑒𝓃~?'

Opening her eyes, the child slowly adjusted to the room's dim atmosphere. Though she felt the wetness of tears in her eyes.

Well... She wasn't surprised to have been crying in her sleep, no..

It has happened many times before, though now...

For a different reason.

Against her back she could feel a soft mattress; it rested beneath her fingertips, though notably cold to the touch. She groaned softly, sitting up as the recollection of her memories slowly flooded back, and her hand reached up to wipe those lingering tears away.

She was here,

with them,

alone.

Without any other humans

It's just her...

The room was oddly more soothing, despite the darkness shrouding over every corner. Maybe it was the silence.. Though the silence was odd to her..

'𝒜𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝑔𝑜𝓃𝑒~?'

Her eyes scanned over the area as she listened closely for any single sound.

...

...

...

There was nothing...

Not a single sound...

The whole room remained in dead silence, and beyond the door was no different.

"𝔐𝔥.."

She threw her legs over the side of the bed, having they felt more valiant after being rested. She glanced down; her brown travel-bag lied horizontally against the wooden floor. It would have only been ....what....a few minutes? Maybe a little longer...? She didn't feel like she slept for very long and yet her body felt rested.. It was strange..

She reached down, grasping her bag as a deplorable sigh slid through her teeth. She slipped the bag strap over her head, having it rest against her shoulder. Now that she was rested, there would be no point to staying in this room. She stood up, feeling the cold wood beneath her bare feet as she ambled towards the door, pausing briefly before touching the knob. What happens after this? All she wanted to do was get to the front door..and leave..it would be mean...to leave.. She was i n v i t e d in here after all... But she didn't want to worry about that right now.. Staying anywhere near S a n s was what she couldn't stand.

She took a deep breath, wrapping her fingers around the frigid metal knob and slowly turned it, listening as the door let out it's sonorous 'creak~'. She peeked her head out, glancing down the hall towards the staircase. It was so close yet so far.. But even so, she couldn't see a single being around, and so, she pushed the door opened some more and slipped out, keeping her attention set firmly on the staircase.

"*whαt αrє чσu dσíng?"

She froze, hearing that same deep voice that chilled her bones time and time again before. She didn't want to pay him any mind..she wanted to ignore him..but..she knew it would be a fatal mistake. But what was there to say?

She slowly turned her head and looked through the balcony's bars. Of course, Sans was there. He was lying on the living room couch, eyeing her with an acutely large amount of suspicion. It made her feel a little more compelled to stay muted but at the same time, she didn't want him to think she was up to anything bad.. His austere gaze made it clear he didn't trust her.

"𝔒𝔥...ℑ....𝔧𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔴𝔬𝔨𝔢 𝔲𝔭 𝔞𝔫𝔡..𝔴𝔢𝔩𝔩, ℑ 𝔡𝔦𝔡𝔫'𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔨 ℑ 𝔰𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔩𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 𝔦𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔯𝔬𝔬𝔪 𝔰𝔦𝔫𝔠𝔢 ℑ 𝔴𝔞𝔰𝔫'𝔱 ..𝔱𝔦𝔯𝔢𝔡 𝔞𝔫𝔶𝔪𝔬𝔯𝔢..𝔰𝔬 ℑ 𝔩𝔢𝔣𝔱.." She explained, though her occasional pauses didn't help her appear any less suspicious. Sans would only stare at her as if she had been blurting out unintelligible nonsense to him this whole time.. "*whαt αrє чσu plαnníng?" He asked, cutting his eyes if only slightly at her. "I'm not planning anything!" She stated as if she were firm on her word.

"ℑ 𝔥𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔫𝔬 𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔬𝔫 𝔱𝔬 𝔭𝔩𝔞𝔫 𝔞𝔫𝔶𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤. ℑ 𝔰𝔦𝔪𝔭𝔩𝔶 𝔧𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔴𝔬𝔨𝔢 𝔲𝔭 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔡𝔦𝔡𝔫'𝔱 𝔴𝔞𝔫𝔱 𝔱𝔬 𝔩𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯 𝔦𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔯𝔬𝔬𝔪...𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔦𝔰 𝔞𝔩𝔩."

It felt like her sentences were worded thoughtlessly, as she really had no other excuse to be out of that room.. "*hm.." Sans was uncomfortably silent for a moment, taking in what she said and how she said it.. Though it didn't mean much to him. She still seemed suspicious. "*σk thєn."

'ℳ𝒶𝓎𝒷𝑒 𝒽𝑒 𝒷𝑒𝓁𝒾𝑒𝓋𝑒𝒹 𝓂𝑒?'

She would think to herself, though never being able to say it for sure, she turned her attention away from him and proceeded to walk towards the staircase.

"*thєn whєrє αrє чσu gσíng?" Once more, he questioned her suddenly, not giving her a moment to think. But..she wanted to leave.. Leave this house and leave him behind. However, if she even attempts to leave Sans' suspicion would grow more..or maybe something worse may happen. "ℑ'𝔪..𝔥𝔬𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔩𝔶 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔤𝔬𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔞𝔫𝔶𝔴𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢.." She said, whilst leasurily making her way down the stairs.

At this rate she really couldn't get to the front door.. She mosied into the living room and slowly sat herself down on the floor, being a safe distance away from him. ℑ'𝔩𝔩 𝔧𝔲𝔰𝔱...𝔰𝔦𝔱 𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢...𝔦𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔱𝔯𝔬𝔲𝔟𝔩𝔢𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢." She wanted to believe that if she stayed within his line of sight, he would have no reason to call her suspicious. "*...σk thєn.."

There was an unsettling silence that slowly ensued over them, though for a moment it was more of a relief than anything. The girls fingers entertwined and she placed them in her lap neatly as she examined the room.

A tv, a couch, a small table.. And an open archway.. There wasn't much else, though it would feel like the atmosphere was much more unsettling looking towards the open archway as it appeared to lead into a room of complete darkness.. The child didn't like it at all, and merely turned away from it silently gazing at her hands.

"*ѕσ whαt єlѕє dσ чσu wαnt?" Sans quizzed once more, noticing her glancing around excessively.

Each time he asked her something she felt just a little bit more tense. Anything she says could be fatal.. But remaining in silence is worse in several ways.

"ℑ 𝔧𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔴𝔦𝔰𝔥 𝔱𝔬 𝔩𝔬𝔬𝔨 𝔞𝔯𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔡 𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔞 𝔩𝔦𝔱𝔱𝔩𝔢...𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔪 𝔲𝔭 𝔞 𝔟𝔦𝔱 𝔦𝔣 𝔬𝔣 𝔠𝔬𝔲𝔯𝔰𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱'𝔰 𝔬𝔨𝔦..." Her eyes would slowly meet his mere red iris as she continued to ask; "𝔅𝔶 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔴𝔞𝔶, 𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔰𝔲𝔰𝔭𝔦𝔠𝔦𝔬𝔲𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔪𝔢, 𝔬𝔯 𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔯𝔢𝔪𝔬𝔱𝔢𝔩𝔶 𝔰𝔦𝔪𝔦𝔩𝔞𝔯 𝔱𝔬 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱...?"

"*índєєd í αm, í dσn't truѕt чσu humαnѕ, nσt єvєn α вít, αnd í hαvє mч rєαѕσnѕ whч." It wouldn't take him long to reply, and it felt as if every lingering word he spoke was filled to the brink with undeniable truth. She could feel it and see it as clear as day; he didn't trust humans. He didn't care about them. But really.. all humans? It didn't seem right.. "𝔒𝔥..ℑ 𝔰𝔢𝔢..." Her words fell out slowly but softly. She didn't want to think he would always hate humans.. Maybe someday he would change.. But how would she know?

"𝔚𝔢𝔩𝔩, ℑ 𝔴𝔬𝔫'𝔱 𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔠𝔢 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔱𝔬 𝔟𝔢𝔩𝔦𝔢𝔳𝔢 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔠𝔞𝔫 𝔱𝔯𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔪𝔢...𝔪𝔬𝔰𝔱𝔩𝔶 𝔟𝔢𝔠𝔞𝔲𝔰𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔟𝔩𝔞𝔫𝔨𝔩𝔶 𝔦𝔪𝔭𝔬𝔰𝔰𝔦𝔟𝔩𝔢. 𝔅𝔲𝔱 ℑ'𝔪 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔱𝔯𝔶𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔬 𝔟𝔢 𝔞 𝔱𝔥𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔱 𝔱𝔬 𝔶𝔬𝔲, 𝔞𝔫𝔶𝔴𝔞𝔶. ℑ𝔣 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔡𝔬𝔫'𝔱 𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔡 𝔟𝔢𝔩𝔦𝔢𝔳𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱 𝔥 𝔞 𝔱 𝔦𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔩𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔱...𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔫...- 𝔟𝔲𝔱 𝔦𝔱'𝔰 𝔬𝔨𝔦 𝔦𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔟𝔢𝔩𝔦𝔢𝔳𝔞𝔟𝔩𝔢." After finishing talking the room fell back into uncurable silence; Sans' piercing gaze was more like a look of surprise, though the silence made it feel worse.

....

Before she could open her mouth to say another feeble word she was taken back by Sans bursting out in an insensitively sonorous fit of laughter. It was like everything she said was nothing more than a joke to him, an unbelievably stupid one at that. "𝔐𝔶..." She didn't want to say another word now. What would be the point? He isn't taking her seriously.

Eventually his laughter settled down though it didn't make her believe it meant anything good. "*thαt'ѕ rєαllч funnч cσmíng frσm α humαn líkє ч σ u."

He told her, blankly blurting out his opinion.

The words could distintly feel like they weren't fully directed towards her.. But she couldn't help but feel a bit offended.. She hadn't done anything to him.. So to say that? Like he k n o w s her as being a bad seed.. It was more crushing than she would have liked. "ℌ𝔲𝔪𝔞𝔫 𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔪𝔢, 𝔥𝔲𝔥.." She narrowed her eyes a little, keeping herself as calm as she could. She wasn't in immedient danger.. But Sans' words felt more venomous than anyone else's that she'd ever heard. "𝔄𝔰𝔰𝔲𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔤 I'𝔪 𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔬𝔫𝔢 𝔰𝔢𝔩𝔣𝔦𝔰𝔥 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔴𝔬-𝔣𝔞𝔠𝔢𝔡, ℑ'𝔪 𝔤𝔲𝔢𝔰𝔰𝔦𝔫𝔤."

"*єvєrчσnє σf чσu αrє thє ѕαmє. nσthíng mσrє, nσthíng lєѕѕ." As he said this so bluntly, it would seem he was recollecting bottled up memories of the past. The words felt strickened with anger though hid behind his uncannily careless tone.

'...𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝒶𝓂𝑒...?

ℋ𝑜𝓌 𝓈𝓉𝓇𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒...ℋ𝒾𝓈 𝒸𝒽𝑜𝒾𝒸𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝒹𝓈...𝓊𝓈𝒾𝓃𝑔 "𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝒶𝓂𝑒" 𝓉𝑜 𝒹𝑒𝓈𝒸𝓇𝒾𝒷𝑒 𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝒽𝓊𝓂𝒶𝓃𝓈?

𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒'𝓈 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑒𝓁𝓈𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉..'

As she thought this to herself she would think about what to say. Conceiving her sentence, she could tell something was on his mind..but to pry? It might not be the most clever an idea.. But being she was gifted with exceptional perceptiveness, she wanted to exceed the current level of knowledge he had her at; knowing too little.

"𝔘-𝔘𝔪.. 𝔓𝔩𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔢..𝔠𝔬𝔯𝔯𝔢𝔠𝔱 𝔪𝔢 𝔦𝔣 ℑ'𝔪 𝔴𝔯𝔬𝔫𝔤...𝔟𝔲𝔱...𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔴𝔞𝔶 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔰𝔞𝔶 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔦𝔫 𝔰𝔲𝔠𝔥 𝔞 𝔴𝔞𝔶 𝔪𝔞𝔨𝔢𝔰 𝔪𝔢 𝔴𝔬𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔯 𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤..." As she paused she glanced up to notice his piercing gaze did not even acknowledge her as she spoke, he remained filed inside his own recollections. "...𝔡𝔦𝔡...𝔞 𝔥𝔲𝔪𝔞𝔫...𝔡𝔬 𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔬 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔱𝔬 𝔪𝔞𝔨𝔢 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔟𝔢𝔩𝔦𝔢𝔳𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱?" As soon as she finished her question, he shot his full attention towards her as if he were truly surprised by her being inextricably apt towards his vagueness. He hadn't even mentioned meeting a human and yet her question would prove that she caught onto him having done so.

"*...thєч αrє α t r α í t σ r. lєft uѕ hєrє tσ d í є. thєч mαdє α prσmíѕє αnd l є f t u ѕ." Every word he spoke through gritting teeth was filled with hatred and deadly spite. It felt like every sentence was riding on his boiling anger as he reviled his recollections. "𝔗𝔥𝔢𝔶...𝔩𝔢𝔣𝔱 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔞𝔩𝔩?" She found this a bit sad ..to think he didn't want anything to do with her because a human before her broke a promise to them... It must of been a big promise for him to still dwell on it..right?

"𝔄𝔫𝔡 𝔶𝔬𝔲...𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔲𝔪𝔢..𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔥𝔲𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔰 𝔴𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔡𝔬 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔞𝔪𝔢;...𝔩𝔢𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔶𝔬𝔲. 𝔄𝔫𝔡 𝔰𝔬 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔦𝔰 𝔴𝔥𝔶 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔡𝔬𝔫'𝔱 𝔬𝔯...𝔠𝔞𝔫'𝔱..𝔱𝔯𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔪𝔢?"

"*чєp." He replied bluntly.

It didn't feel right to be nothing because of something someone else did..but what could she do... Then again... Why did she come down here anyway? No, it wasn't intentional.. It was an accident... But now that she was here..it felt ...better..than being on the surface. "𝔚𝔢𝔩𝔩,...𝔟𝔢𝔩𝔦𝔢𝔳𝔢 𝔪𝔢 𝔬𝔯 𝔫𝔬𝔱...ℑ 𝔡𝔬𝔫'𝔱 𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔶 𝔠𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔞𝔟𝔬𝔲𝔱 𝔤𝔬𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔟𝔞𝔠𝔨 𝔥𝔬𝔪𝔢 𝔞𝔫𝔶𝔴𝔞𝔶. 𝔖𝔬 𝔴𝔥𝔞𝔱𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯 𝔥𝔞𝔭𝔭𝔢𝔫𝔰, 𝔥𝔞𝔭𝔭𝔢𝔫𝔰. ℑ 𝔭𝔯𝔬𝔟𝔞𝔟𝔩𝔶 𝔴𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡𝔫 𝔱𝔞𝔨𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔬𝔭𝔭𝔬𝔯𝔱𝔲𝔫𝔦𝔱𝔶 𝔱𝔬 𝔯𝔢𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔫 𝔟𝔞𝔠𝔨 𝔦𝔣 ℑ 𝔠𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡."

Saying this, she felt like a morbid being... But she had her own reasons..in a way, she felt...safer..down here..than she did up there, upon the surface.. How strange.

"*whч íѕ thαt?"

She became silent, slowly sliding her knees up to her chest and clenching them tightly. She didn't like talking about her life... She had nothing to hide personally.. But issues resurrected in her village, in her home.. She merely didn't want the memories to flood back. "*tєll mє. dσn't вє ѕhч." He pushed it, grinning, as he could tell this topic was sensitive for her.

She put her head down against her knees, shielding her face away from him. "ℑ...𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔶...𝔡𝔬𝔫'𝔱 𝔴𝔞𝔫𝔱 𝔱𝔬...𝔢𝔵𝔭𝔩𝔞𝔦𝔫 𝔦𝔱 𝔦𝔫 𝔡𝔢𝔱𝔞𝔦𝔩.."

"*hєhє, αlríght, whαtєvєr ѕuítѕ чσu."

He didn't further it..maybe he just lost interest.. But it was a relief to her. Though.. The silence was too much to handle as of right now.. "𝔄-𝔄𝔫𝔶𝔴𝔞𝔶...𝔲𝔪..ℑ'𝔳𝔢..𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔩𝔦𝔷𝔢𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 ℑ'𝔳𝔢 𝔫𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯 𝔰𝔞𝔦𝔡...𝔴𝔥𝔬 ℑ 𝔴𝔞𝔰...𝔴𝔥𝔦-𝔴𝔥𝔦𝔠𝔥 ..𝔦𝔰 𝔦𝔪𝔭𝔯𝔬𝔭𝔢𝔯 𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔫𝔢𝔯𝔰." she stuttered out in a softened tone. She merely wanted to change this conversation topic to something else...anything else.. And this was the first thing to come to mind.

"*ѕαmє hєrє, í'm ѕαnѕ." He stated. She felt a little bit surprised.. He gave his name so bluntly.. She didn't even expect him to give her the first letter of his name but, why would she complain? She knew something else about him now - his name. "𝔐𝔥...𝔖𝔞𝔫𝔰...𝔬𝔨𝔦...ℑ'𝔪 𝔏𝔞𝔲𝔯𝔦𝔦,...𝔏𝔞𝔲𝔯𝔦𝔦 𝔉𝔩𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔯𝔰.. ..𝔡𝔢𝔰𝔭𝔦𝔱𝔢 ℑ 𝔨𝔫𝔬𝔴 𝔦𝔱'𝔰 𝔞 𝔩𝔦𝔱𝔱𝔩𝔢 𝔩𝔞𝔱𝔢 𝔱𝔬 𝔰𝔞𝔶 𝔦𝔱 - 𝔲𝔪.. ℑ𝔱'𝔰.. 𝔑𝔦𝔠𝔢 𝔱𝔬 𝔪𝔞𝔨𝔢 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔞𝔮𝔲𝔞𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔫𝔠𝔢.."

"*ѕαmє gσєѕ fσr чσu." He said.

It felt good to hear those words.. But Laurii didn't truly know how sincere they were. But he doesn't care about her..so why would he bother lying? If he didn't agree that it was nice to meet, he'd surely say something else...right?

"𝔜𝔞𝔶.." She muttered softly, feeling as if progress had been made. "𝔖𝔬..ℑ 𝔨𝔫𝔬𝔴 ℑ'𝔪 𝔟𝔢𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔞 𝔟𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔱𝔬 𝔶𝔬𝔲...𝔟𝔲𝔱 𝔪𝔞𝔶 ℑ 𝔞𝔰𝔨 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔢𝔩𝔰𝔢..?" She asked, feeling a pinch of dread towards what she wanted to ask.

"*whαt íѕ ít?"

For a moment..she contemplated not asking this.. Maybe she didn't really want an answer.. But even if that was the case, she has to put it aside. "𝔚𝔢𝔩𝔩, ...𝔦𝔣 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔠𝔞𝔫'𝔱 𝔱𝔯𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔥𝔲𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔰 𝔞𝔱 𝔞𝔩𝔩...𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔫 𝔴𝔥𝔶 𝔡𝔦𝔡𝔫'𝔱 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔧𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔨𝔦𝔩𝔩 𝔪𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔣𝔦𝔯𝔰𝔱 𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢 ℑ 𝔪𝔢𝔱 𝔶𝔬𝔲? 𝔜𝔬𝔲 𝔥𝔞𝔡 𝔞𝔫 𝔬𝔭𝔢𝔫 𝔬𝔭𝔭𝔬𝔯𝔱𝔲𝔫𝔦𝔱𝔶 𝔞𝔣𝔱𝔢𝔯 𝔞𝔩𝔩..."

The question didn't seem to bother Sans at all..his grin grew a bit. "*í líkє tσ mαkє mч prєч ѕuffєr αnd ѕcαrєd. thєn kíll thєm."

"𝔐𝔥...𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔰𝔲𝔯𝔭𝔯𝔦𝔰𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔪𝔢 𝔞𝔱 𝔞𝔩𝔩 ... ...𝔞𝔫𝔡 ℑ 𝔤𝔲𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱'𝔰 𝔴𝔥𝔞𝔱 ℑ 𝔞𝔪 𝔦𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔰𝔦𝔱𝔲𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫.." She would say with slight uncertainty, though feeling as if she couldn't be more correct.

"*mαчвє" He laughed a bit, beginning to scroll through his phone.

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The unsettling silence ensued the room once more..the only dull sound was Sans' humming as he spinned a sharp blade around in-between his skeletal fingers. Laurii glanced around, observing the room once more, muted. She wouldn't admit it but Sans' humming was oddly enough to help her conceive what to say next. "...𝔪𝔪𝔥..." She let out a deplorable sigh. It was bad enough she still couldn't get to the front door without Sans' suspicion growing on her.. Now she has gone silent, unable to think of something to say to him..?

It wasn't acceptable.. She needed to ask something, say something.. Anything.. She needed to learn more. Glancing at Sans, she observed him as she had done before.. Even when at his state of ataraxy, he was still incredibly unsettling..

"ℑ'𝔳𝔢...𝔟𝔢𝔢𝔫...𝔴𝔬𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤...𝔦𝔰 ..𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔥𝔬𝔴 𝔩𝔦𝔣𝔢 𝔥𝔞𝔰 𝔞𝔩𝔴𝔞𝔶𝔰 𝔟𝔢𝔢𝔫 𝔡𝔬𝔴𝔫 𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢?" Laurii finally asked, though it took more courage than she had to blurt out such a question.

Sans would only pause, his grin slowly fading away. "*σh, ít hαѕ вєєn wσrѕє, вut ѕαmє ѕítuαtíσn." He explained.

"𝔚𝔬𝔯𝔰𝔢...? ℌ𝔬𝔴..𝔠𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔦𝔱 𝔬𝔣 𝔟𝔢𝔢𝔫 𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔰𝔢? ℑ𝔣...ℑ 𝔪𝔞𝔶 𝔞𝔰𝔨." She questioned, though she didn't know if she s h o u l d be pushing it. But as long as she is getting answers she will continue to wonder.

"*mσnѕtєrѕ вєggíng αnd dчíng lєft αnd ríght."

"𝔗𝔥𝔞𝔱'𝔰.. 𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔯𝔦𝔟𝔩𝔢.." She stated, "𝔟𝔲𝔱...𝔴𝔥𝔶?...𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔶 𝔰𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡𝔫 𝔬𝔣 𝔟𝔢𝔢𝔫 𝔡𝔶𝔦𝔫𝔤--"

"*ѕtαrvíng. thє cσrє whích kєpt uѕ mσѕtlч αlívє ѕtσppєd wσrkíng."

At this point, it felt a little bit more sadder than before.. The reason behind all of this was over starvation.. "𝔒𝔥..𝔞𝔫𝔡..𝔶𝔢𝔱..𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔰𝔱𝔦𝔩𝔩 𝔞𝔩𝔦𝔳𝔢..𝔦𝔱 𝔴𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔰𝔢𝔢𝔪... 𝔄𝔫𝔡 ℑ 𝔠𝔞𝔫 𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔲𝔪𝔢 ℑ 𝔨𝔫𝔬𝔴 𝔥𝔬𝔴 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔦𝔰.."

Sans let out a somber sigh as if the resort they all had to come to; human consumption- actually bothered him in a way. "*чєp."

For a brief moment he went silent, making it seem as if he was dwelling inbetween his thoughts once again.. But before long, he grinned looking back at her. "*í mαdє ѕσmє rulєѕ fσr thíѕ tσwn ѕσ wє cαn ѕurvívє." He announced, changing the subject in a way.

"𝔒𝔥, 𝔯𝔲𝔩𝔢𝔰? ...𝔴𝔢𝔩𝔩...𝔴𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔶? ℑ𝔣 ℑ 𝔪𝔞𝔶 𝔞𝔰𝔨..." She would mentally scorn herself for asking this.. One part of her didn't want an answer..but if the answer chills her bones in any way, it was obvious Sans wouldn't hesitate to tell her.

"*wєll fírѕt íѕ tσ nσt tєll thє quєєn αвσut thє rulєѕ. - ѕєcσnd íѕ tσ ѕhαrє thє fσσd wíth σthєrѕ. - αnd thírd íѕ tσ cαpturє thє humαn íf ѕєєn."

Laurii felt a cold sweat run down her cheek. Just as expected; she really shouldn't of bothered asking.

"𝔒..𝔨𝔦...𝔰𝔬..𝔱𝔬 𝔟𝔢 𝔣𝔞𝔦𝔯, 𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯𝔶𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔣𝔦𝔫𝔢 𝔢𝔵𝔠𝔢𝔭𝔱 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔩𝔞𝔰𝔱 𝔯𝔲𝔩𝔢. 𝔘𝔪- ..𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔬𝔟𝔳𝔦𝔬𝔲𝔰 𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔬𝔫𝔰.."

"*hєhє, í knσw." Sans uttered in response.

Laurii thought for a moment- every time she began a conversation with him it always turns out to be more uncomfortable for her than how it started. Though, she valued what she was gathering from him. She didn't want to stop just yet. She was learning too much to give up. "𝔅𝔶 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔴𝔞𝔶...𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫𝔢𝔡 𝔟𝔢𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔢 𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔞𝔟𝔬𝔲𝔱 𝔞 𝔔𝔲𝔢𝔢𝔫, 𝔯𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱?"

Sans narrowed his eye sockets, glimpsing in her direction. "*чєα αnd whαt αвσut hєr?" In a sense, the way he said that made it seem like he didn't care too much for discussing the Queen. In fact, in a way, it seemed like it vexed him if only slightly. Though this alone didn't deter her.

"𝔚𝔢𝔩𝔩, 𝔴𝔥𝔢𝔫 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔱𝔬𝔩𝔡 𝔪𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔬𝔰𝔢 𝔯𝔲𝔩𝔢𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯𝔰, 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔭𝔯𝔦𝔪𝔞𝔯𝔦𝔩𝔶 𝔰𝔞𝔦𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔣𝔦𝔯𝔰𝔱 𝔬𝔫𝔢 𝔴𝔞𝔰 𝔫 𝔬 𝔱 𝔱𝔬 𝔱𝔢𝔩𝔩 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔔𝔲𝔢𝔢𝔫 𝔞𝔟𝔬𝔲𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔯𝔲𝔩𝔢𝔰. 𝔚𝔥𝔦𝔠𝔥, 𝔟𝔞𝔰𝔢𝔡 𝔬𝔫 𝔴𝔥𝔞𝔱 ℑ 𝔠𝔞𝔫 𝔤𝔞𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱, 𝔢𝔦𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔪𝔢𝔞𝔫𝔰 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔯𝔢𝔟𝔢𝔩𝔩𝔦𝔬𝔲𝔰, 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔬𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔶 𝔡𝔦𝔰𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔥𝔢𝔯, 𝔬𝔯... 𝔰𝔥𝔢'𝔰 𝔪𝔢𝔞𝔫... ℑ𝔣 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔯𝔢𝔟𝔢𝔩𝔩𝔦𝔬𝔲𝔰 𝔬𝔯 𝔡𝔦𝔰𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔫... 𝔜𝔬𝔲 𝔭𝔯𝔬𝔟𝔞𝔟𝔩𝔶 𝔴𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔱𝔢𝔩𝔩 𝔥𝔢𝔯...𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔯𝔲𝔩𝔢𝔰...𝔞𝔪..ℑ 𝔴𝔯𝔬𝔫𝔤?"

"*чσu αrє ríght." He stated.

"ℌ𝔪𝔪.. ℑ 𝔰𝔢𝔢.. 𝔚𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔪𝔞𝔨𝔢𝔰 𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔰𝔬... 𝔅𝔞𝔡 𝔬𝔯 𝔡𝔦𝔰𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔞𝔟𝔩𝔢? ℑ𝔰 𝔰𝔥𝔢 𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔞 𝔡𝔦𝔠𝔱𝔞𝔱𝔬𝔯...? 𝔒𝔯 𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤.." She questioned it further, being oblivious to how deeply she was dwelling with all these questions.

"*thє quєєn. ѕhє íѕ thє quєєn." Sans replied bluntly. It didn't answer her question directly..but in a sense it felt like it was meant to be obvious why he didn't like her.. But it wasn't.

"𝔄𝔫𝔡...𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔡𝔦𝔰𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔬𝔫?; 𝔰𝔥𝔢'𝔰 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔔𝔲𝔢𝔢𝔫..."

"*nσ. ѕhє ѕtσlє thє fσσd αnd ѕhє íѕ kєєpíng ít tσ hєrѕєlf."

This singular reason felt like a sensible reason not to favor the Queen...but even so...was that all?

"𝔒𝔥.. 𝔗𝔥𝔢𝔫 𝔦𝔫 𝔰𝔦𝔪𝔭𝔩𝔢 𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔪𝔰...𝔰𝔥𝔢'𝔰 𝔞 𝔰𝔢𝔩𝔣𝔦𝔰𝔥 𝔔𝔲𝔢𝔢𝔫.." It would seem obvious to her.. She wouldn't care too much for the Queen either.. But she doesn't know enough about her other than t h i s to judge her. "*чєѕ. αnd ѕhє íѕ quítє α вullч." Sans added. "ℌ𝔞𝔰...𝔰𝔥𝔢 𝔞𝔩𝔴𝔞𝔶𝔰 𝔟𝔢𝔢𝔫 𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱?" "*nσpє, nєvєr."

Hearing this, Laurii would try to think for a moment about a reason behind all the Queen's misdeeds and such..

"ℑ...𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔲𝔪𝔢 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔤𝔲𝔶'𝔰 ...𝔣𝔬𝔬𝔡 𝔡𝔢𝔭𝔩𝔢𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫 𝔥𝔞𝔰 𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔬 𝔡𝔬 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔫𝔤𝔦𝔫𝔤... 𝔅𝔢𝔠𝔞𝔲𝔰𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔴𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔬𝔣... ℑ 𝔴𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔬𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔲𝔪𝔢, 𝔟𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔱𝔥 𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔯𝔶 𝔬𝔣 𝔞 𝔰𝔬𝔯𝔱... 𝔗𝔬𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔡𝔰 𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔟𝔢𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔢 𝔰𝔥𝔢 𝔴𝔞𝔰..𝔪𝔢𝔞𝔫."

"*hєh."

"ℑ 𝔰𝔲𝔭𝔭𝔬𝔰𝔢..𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔡𝔬𝔫'𝔱 𝔟𝔢𝔩𝔦𝔢𝔳𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔲𝔪𝔭𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫.."

"*чєα."

"𝔗𝔥𝔢𝔫 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔥𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔬𝔴𝔫 𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔲𝔪𝔭𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫, 𝔦𝔣 𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔡𝔦𝔰𝔞𝔤𝔯𝔢𝔢𝔞𝔟𝔩𝔢."

"*í guєѕѕ."

At this point she felt worse for believing this place was just a place full of blood thirsty monsters with no sense of humanity..it's much worse for them than she first assumed.

"𝔚𝔢𝔩𝔩...𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔴𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔦𝔱'𝔰 𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔱𝔥...𝔦𝔣 𝔞𝔫𝔶𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤...ℑ'𝔪 𝔰𝔬𝔯𝔯𝔶 𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯𝔶𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔴𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔡𝔬𝔴𝔫𝔥𝔦𝔩𝔩 𝔡𝔬𝔴𝔫 𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢...𝔦𝔱'𝔰 𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔶 𝔲𝔫𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔱𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔱𝔢 𝔱𝔬 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔨 𝔬𝔣 𝔥𝔬𝔴 𝔰𝔬 𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔶 𝔥𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔯𝔳𝔢𝔡 𝔱𝔬 𝔡𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔥...𝔞𝔫𝔡...𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔔𝔲𝔢𝔢𝔫 𝔦𝔰 𝔪𝔢𝔞𝔫...𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱.."

"*ít'ѕ α hαrd lífє." Sans replied as he stretched, though necessarily not having any muscles to stretch as he was just a skeleton. It felt strange in a sense.. Almost each reply he gave had no hint of disquietude in it. He talked to her like he was talking to a friend. Even in this time of tribulation, he showed no sense of worry.. Did it really matter to him? Or maybe it does... But he doesn't care enough to show it? How strange..

"𝔜𝔢𝔞𝔥 𝔟𝔲𝔱...𝔰𝔱𝔦𝔩𝔩 𝔴𝔞𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔡 𝔱𝔬 𝔰𝔞𝔶 𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤...𝔦𝔱'𝔰 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔯𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔩𝔦𝔳𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰."

"*αt lєαѕt ѕhє íѕ ѕtαчíng αwαч, ѕσ ít'ѕ αlríght."

"ℑ 𝔰𝔲𝔭𝔭𝔬𝔰𝔢 𝔰𝔬...ℌ𝔬𝔭𝔢𝔣𝔲𝔩𝔩𝔶 𝔦𝔱 𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔶𝔰 𝔞𝔩𝔯𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱...𝔡𝔬𝔢𝔰𝔫'𝔱 𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔫𝔤𝔢 𝔞𝔫𝔶𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢 𝔰𝔬𝔬𝔫...𝔞𝔱 𝔞𝔩𝔩...𝔟𝔲𝔱...𝔬𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢 𝔠𝔞𝔫 𝔱𝔢𝔩𝔩.."

"*í dσn't thínk αnчthíng wíll chαngє. mαчвє ít wíll gєt wσrѕє."

Laurii narrowed her eyes. His pessimism towards everything she said made her almost want to stop talking to him. But then what? This, and only this is keeping him from filing her out as suspicious.

"...𝔥𝔬𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔩𝔶, 𝔖𝔞𝔫𝔰, ℑ'𝔪 𝔥𝔬𝔭𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔦𝔱 𝔡𝔬𝔢𝔰𝔫'𝔱 𝔤𝔢𝔱 𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔰𝔢...ℑ'𝔪 𝔥𝔬𝔭𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔫𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔤𝔢𝔱𝔰 𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔰𝔢, 𝔦𝔫 𝔣𝔞𝔠𝔱...𝔴𝔥𝔢𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔟𝔢𝔩𝔦𝔢𝔳𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔬𝔯 𝔫𝔬𝔱..ℑ'𝔪 𝔥𝔬𝔭𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔰𝔢 𝔡𝔬𝔢𝔰𝔫'𝔱 𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔢."

"*tσσ вαd чσu cαn't hєlp ít, чσu cαn juѕt cσmє hєrє αnd díє. .. єvєrчσnє íѕ gσnnα díє... í dσn't fєαr ít.."

Though it feels like his pessimism just gets more and more outrageous, it felt a bit understandable.. If they one day run out of food... They will die.. But to be so pessimistic about it..doesn't fix that problem.

Laurii furrowed her brows, she could feel that for the first time being here she was..actually becoming indignant with him. She was nearly at her limit with his careless banter.

"𝔚𝔥𝔢𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔣𝔢𝔞𝔯 𝔦𝔱 𝔬𝔯 𝔫𝔬𝔱, 𝔡𝔬𝔢𝔰𝔫'𝔱 𝔪𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔦𝔱 𝔰𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔥𝔞𝔭𝔭𝔢𝔫! 𝔑𝔬 𝔬𝔫𝔢 𝔰𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔡𝔦𝔢...𝔫𝔬 𝔟𝔬𝔡𝔶 𝔡𝔬𝔴𝔫 𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔰𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔥𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔱𝔬 𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔯𝔶 𝔞𝔟𝔬𝔲𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱....𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔶𝔢𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔶 𝔡𝔬, 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔦𝔱'𝔰 𝔞𝔟𝔰𝔬𝔩𝔲𝔱𝔢𝔩𝔶 𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔯𝔦𝔟𝔩𝔢!" She kept herself from shouting how unjust this whole situation felt to her, she had more sense than to be loud in somebody else's house..but it was no secret that it made her irked.

"*вut thєч dσ, thєч juѕt díє frσm հմηɡεɾ, thєч cαn't ѕurvívє."

"𝔄𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔫 𝔩𝔢𝔱 𝔪𝔢 𝔤𝔲𝔢𝔰𝔰....𝔶𝔬𝔲'𝔯𝔢 𝔤𝔬𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔬 𝔡𝔦𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔞𝔪𝔢 𝔴𝔞𝔶?"

Distinctly she didn't like the idea of him dying of hunger or dying period..but why? This whole time he had done nothing but scare her and make her feel uncomfortable...but knowing the truth about their current anguish made it hard to not care about him.

But hearing this did not faze him, instead, he let out a sudden chuckle.

"*í wαѕ lчíng tσ чσu αвσut ѕσmєthíng.."

With no context, Laurii was left having to ask; ".. ..𝔚𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔦𝔰 𝔦𝔱..?" Though inside, she didn't really want to know..and yet somewhere in her, she was compelled to ask. "*í αm αlrєαdч dєαd. ..вut ѕσmєhσw αlívє αt thє ѕαmє tímє."

'ℋ𝓊𝒽...?'

Hearing this didn't make a lot of sense..how could he be alive but dead? But she couldn't say he was lying..she didn't truly know that and she didn't want to make him mad by calling him a liar.. "𝔜𝔬𝔲'𝔯𝔢...𝔲𝔫..𝔡𝔢𝔞𝔡?" She nervously fumbled out the words, though it sounded stupid for a moment to be asking that of all things. "*prєttч much." He confirmed in a careless tone.

"𝔅𝔲𝔱...𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱'𝔰...𝔦𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔤𝔦𝔠𝔞𝔩 𝔟𝔢𝔠𝔞𝔲𝔰𝔢..𝔦𝔣 𝔶𝔬𝔲'𝔯𝔢 𝔲𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔞𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔫...𝔶𝔬𝔲'𝔯𝔢 𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔫𝔦𝔪𝔞𝔱𝔢𝔡 𝔟𝔶 𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢 𝔱𝔶𝔭𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔫𝔞𝔩 𝔳𝔦𝔯𝔲𝔰 𝔬𝔯 𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤, 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔠𝔞𝔫𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔭𝔯𝔞𝔠𝔱𝔦𝔠𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔶 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔨 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯𝔰𝔢𝔩𝔣 𝔬𝔫𝔢 𝔟𝔦𝔱... ...𝔰𝔬... 𝔗𝔥𝔞𝔱'𝔰 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔠𝔞𝔰𝔢...𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔦𝔪𝔭𝔩𝔢𝔰𝔱 𝔴𝔞𝔶 𝔱𝔬 𝔭𝔲𝔱 𝔦𝔱 𝔦𝔰...𝔦𝔫 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔠𝔞𝔰𝔢 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔧𝔲𝔰𝔱..𝔠𝔥𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔢𝔡 𝔡𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔥."

"*mαчвє í díd" He laughed, "*í'm full σf ѕurpríѕєѕ, hun."

The conversing continued to transpire for a while.. Though most of what Sans said was altered between mean and concerning, Laurii learned a little bit more and more each time he spoke, though maybe he didn't catch onto how much he was teaching her.

But after a while it felt like there wasn't much else to say..not much else to ask.. Though... Laurii was becoming restless.. She needed something to do now...

But what...?

"𝔐𝔥...𝔲𝔪...𝔥𝔢𝔶, 𝔡𝔲𝔪𝔟 𝔮𝔲𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫 𝔟𝔲𝔱...𝔦𝔰 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔞𝔫𝔶𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔬 𝔣𝔦𝔵 𝔞𝔯𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔡 𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢..𝔲𝔪 𝔠𝔩𝔬𝔱𝔥 𝔴𝔦𝔰𝔢?..."

If there was anything she knew better, it was sewing. She held onto a sliver of hope that there was something she could sew in here.. Sans slowly turned to her, glaring at her as if she had said the most senseless thing that she possibly could. "*uh, nσ."

Laurii's hopes felt diminished.. Though maybe it was dumb of her to even ask that in the first place.. "𝔒𝔥...𝔬𝔨𝔦..." She couldn't help but feel extremely bummed out.. For a moment, Sans seemed to consider her despondency..she was offering to sew something without asking for anything further.

He glanced down at the large shredded hole in his shirt for a moment. "*hm, αctuαllч.." He slipped his jacket off and his shirt after, revealing that all he had beneath it was bones, but that was all to be expected.. Harshly, he threw his shirt at her, causing her to throw her hands up to catch it, though flinching only slightly. "*thєrє'ѕα quítє α ríp ín єm'."

She took a moment to examine his shirt indeptly. The rip was immense but it was nothing she couldn't handle. "𝔒𝔥, ℑ 𝔰𝔢𝔢! 𝔄𝔫𝔡...𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔡𝔬𝔫'𝔱 𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔡...𝔦𝔣 ℑ 𝔰𝔢𝔴 𝔦𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔫?"

"*nαh."

She felt a little bit better now having something to do..something helpful.. "𝔐𝔥, 𝔬𝔨𝔦 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔫~!" She reached into her dress's skirt pocket where she had stored a miniature sewing kit and pulled it out. She took out a needle and some thread. As she would begin to sew the hole, she contemplated every stitch she put in..

Before long, she completed her sewing and picking up the shirt, she examined it for a moment. It was nearly perfect and yet she didn't know how well it would be to him..she mustered up every inch of courage she held in and stood up, slowly trailing her way over to him with the shirt clutched tightly in her hands. She trembled only slightly, handing it back to him in silence.

He grabbed his shirt and looked at it for a second..it truly was nearly perfect..much better than he expected, no doubt. He slowly looked at her; the sudden look quickly making her feel almost like she had made a dire mistake somewhere during sewing.. But before long, he grinned, though for a moment it didn't seem like a fiendish grin..was it... genuine for once?

"*nícє jσв, kíddσ."