Little Blue Riding Hood (Horrorberry)

I Refuse

"i'm back!" Horror called as I waited in the spot he'd left me. I waited to see what he brought for me to eat. He threw in a dead wolf. I stared at it. What the.. I looked at him. He was waiting. So.. he was a cannibal? He hunted his own kind? I looked at the dead wolf again. And he expected me to eat it? I scoffed. "I refuse." It went quiet. "...what..?" I looked at him again. "I'm not eating that thing. I'd rather starve." His hand started pulling at the hole in his skull. "you're.. you're not scared?"
"I- Should I be? You've been nothing but helpful." I pointed out. "And stop doing that, you're going to hurt yourself more!" I chided, slightly worried for the cannibalistic wolf skeleton thing. Wereskeleton? I don't know. His hand left his skull and he narrowed his sockets at me. Now what? He then proceeded to dismember the wolf. I looked away. "You can do your cannibal thing wherever, just not it front of me!"
"so you are scared."
"Not really, that's just gross." I replied feeling nauseous. "you know... your blood is delicious." Now THAT was cause for concern.

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He removed the corpse and went to catch me something else I guess. I feel like I should be surprised that Horror is a cannibal, but honestly I'm not? Something about him just screamed danger. Yet, the danger about him was never towards me? I mean, I guess in the beginning it was, but his threat had long since faded? Maybe I'm just being naive. "you're deep in thought." I jumped. Horror was cooking on the fire. "Mweh heh heh heh! I guess I was." He perked at my laugh, then tilted his head. "you.. really aren't threatened by me. that's amazing to me." I shrugged. "I am curious about what you were saying about my blood. Is this red substance.. your spit?"
"... yes. in my world, our saliva carries healing properties. so my saliva is healing your wounds while simultaneously sealing them too keep blood in and infection out."
"That is.. SO COOL! WOW HORROR, THANKS!" My eyelights exploded into stars while Horror sat there frozen in shock. I mean, it was gross too, but wow, he really was helping me! "how'd your eyes.." My eyes? "Oh! My eyes. They get like that when I'm excited." He looked back to the fire.

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"i promise, it's not wolf." I accepted the meat, deciding to trust Horror. "This is venison?" He nodded, dumbfounded. "what if it had been the wolf.. what if i'd been lying?"
"I trust you not to." I replied simply, taking another bite. The large skeleton shivered. "Horror?" He didn't reply, instead leaving the cave again. Was it something I said?

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Horror POV

Trust. He TRUSTED me. He... I leaned against a tree, sliding down. Papyrus had been the last person to trust me and where had that gotten him? He was dead now. What the hell is this feeling? This fuzziness in my soul? I've never felt this before. I growled. I couldn't let Blue trust me. Not if I want him to live. I'll only get him killed if he does.