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Adrian "Something Toriel said bothers me," Adrian told Nyssa. "What?" "Remember when she gave us the cell phone?" Nyssa nodded, fingering the metal object in her pocket which now lay next to two pieces of unopened Monster Candy. She still took it out sometimes to marvel at it, at the skill with which it had been made and the genius minds it must have taken to design such an extraordinary thing. "She didn't realize we didn't know what it was," Adrian continued. "And then she said, 'I've forgotten how behind your race is in technology'." "Yeah," Nyssa said, starting to grasp at what he was saying. "So?" "She 'forgot'. That means she knew

Nyssa "Come! This way!" Not knowing what else to do, Nyssa and Adrian followed their rescuer. They arrived at an entry room with the walls and ceiling of purple brick, and a floor of smooth magenta stone. Two stone stairwells twisted symmetrically upward to a doorway with a sign above it. The place had clearly once been grand, but now, the stone was cracked and vine tendrils crawled up the walls. Toriel said nothing but waited for the kids to catch up with her before walking through the doorway. "Welcome to your new home, innocent ones," Toriel said, giving them a motherly smile as soon as they entered the room. "Allow me to educate you in

Xandre "I'm going to hunt," Xandre announced, shouldering his bow and his game bag, which he had stuffed with supplies the day before. He slid his knife into a sheath at his belt and turned to leave. No one attempted to stop him. He'd lied smoothly enough that everyone believed his story, and as he walked away, he quietly praised heaven or whatever other force controlled the universe that no one had asked any questions. People believe what they want to believe, he thought. And no one would turn up their nose at the thought of more food. When will I come back? He wondered, going deep into the woods before turning north, toward the distant M

Adrian After a day and a half of climbing the mountain, blindly going higher and higher to the summit with no idea what he was really heading towards, Adrian finally found what he had been looking for without knowing. A few yards ahead of him, the ground suddenly dropped away into a gaping chasm one or two meters in diameter and clearly far deeper. Adrian knew immediately that this wasn't natural. It was the entrance to the Underground. He inched towards the edge and risked a look over the side. The sheer depth of the hole instantly gave him vertigo and he sat back on his haunches, trying to stop his head from spinning. Once he had composed

Adrian "What the heck was that?" Adrian sputtered. When he blinked open his eyes, he realized he was still in the forest where he'd been gathering food for the village. He shook his head wildly, as if that would get rid of the memory of the symbols that had left his mind as suddenly as they had come. He had no idea what had happened. One moment he was pulling a ripe fruit off a branch. The next, those symbols had appeared in his mind's eye. He didn't know where they had come from. He had never seen anything like them in his life… right? Nyssa She gasped as the image appeared. The characters in the text were alien, but somehow she

Nyssa When Nyssa went to sleep on the night she turned seventeen, she found herself pulled into the strangest dream she had ever experienced in her life. She opened her eyes and found herself in an unfamiliar building. The floor she crouched on was blue metal, with intricate electrical circuits embedded just below the surface. Higher up, tubes glowing with pink, yellow, and cyan light were mounted to the wall. In the corner of the room was a single object, its purpose or appearance indistinguishable underneath the tarp that covered it. From all around her came the soft hum of machinery working as it was supposed to. Nyssa looked around, ent

Dark, darker, yet darker. How had it come to this? The Royal Scientist's studies had finally revealed the solution to the problem that had been plaguing monsterkind ever since their defeat in the Great War of Humans and Monsters two thousand years before. But it was a terrible solution. Undoubtably the most horrifying, ironic way to "set things right". Unfortunately, due to the lack of human souls in the Underground, it was the only way. Besides, the plan was already in action. There was no stopping it now. The Royal Scientist took in a deep breath as he prepared to do it. No one else knew about what he planned to do. Not even his sons. H