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You've reached Frisk. If I'm not answering my phone, please leave a message or find me on the second floor, Room 12.

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[determinedest]

[Two at once. Is that possible? Apparently, yes. This isn't like Waterfall at all, or even the lab situated underneath the surface building. This isn't - they've never drowned before. A new and thrilling sort of death to add to their resume, ha ha!

...that's not funny.

Maybe they'll do better at remembering, recalling. They already could tell that the closet wouldn't work, without even opening it. Or not opening it this time. This is how it feels. They did this. They did this to him every day. The snagging, juddering wrench of time spinning back on itself, the world settling all back to zero.]

What if it is us

[They're not doing it, they said, but - what if they're not doing it intentionally? Is this what they are? The powerhouse, the catalyst?]

What if its using us

What if its making us do this

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frisk come on it couldn't be

that's not how the events work

and you can't just reset without even knowing, right?

[Right?]

[Right?]

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[determinedest]

Never had a choice before

RESET or CONTINUE

[They never had a choice. They couldn't just Stop, just Stop. Never learned how to QUIT, but that was never an option to begin with, in more ways than one. No one ever offered that to them.

No one ever let them QUIT.]

have to stay detrmined

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[punful]

it's okay kid

it's just wonderland messing with us like always

something from the underground had to happen eventually

and i was the first one here so

[So he's pretty sure he knows who's really to blame, if anyone can really be blamed for the whims of Wonderland.]

just

try not to worry too much about it

you and chara look after each other

and stay alive

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[determinedest]

[A lengthy pause elapses before they answer him. No way to make things better, not right now. They'll just...they'll make things worse, and neither of them are in a state to be comforting each other and assuring one another of how little they are to blame for this.

They could be the catalyst. It could still be their fault.

The special power.

It's what they were fighting so hard to stop, wasn't it?]

You too

Dont need to breathe right

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[punful]

exactly. i'll be fine

i'll have to jump rooms at least once to keep 4 safe but that's simple enough

plus i've got hotdogs and cat food

[Maybe he can...cheer them up a bit?]

you know it turns out cat food isn't half bad

it's got a purrfect crunch to it

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[determinedest]

[That takes them a moment to register. They stare at the text for a long moment before their focus returns, and they can peer at the tiny black words on the screen as they appear.

He's...he's really trying. For all the panic that's drained their throat dry and sent their heart pounding, he's really trying.]

lol

[That's a lie. They aren't laughing at all.]

please be careful

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[punful]

[It's something. It's something, even if it's just acknowledgement.]

[They'll talk about all this later, he's sure, but for now...]

heh

you too frisk

[determinedest]

[There's...no answer after that. They'll have to talk about this later, they're sure. They're not looking forward to it. They - can't look "forward" at all right now, really.

Ha ha.

...that's not funny.




None of this really is.]