Chapter 4: Meeting the Captain

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The moment you walk inside the door to Niki's home it's nothing like you thought it would be; probably because it's not a home exactly. A little bell chimed as the door opened, just in front of you in the back middle of the room is a rather large, rectangular display case filled with different kinds of pastries from bread to cake, each one with its own mini sign. Looking around more, to your left is 2 small circular tables, enough for maybe 3 people on each, and on your right is a couch and some comfy-looking chairs with a giant board full of drawings and writings (think like a chalk board at school) and a bookshelf.

"Niiiiikiii!" you and Tubbo wince as Tommy yelled fairly loudly, "We're heeerrreeee!"

You hear a noise and see that behind that display case from earlier is a door and out comes a woman. She is taller than you three, though Tommy is catching up, with bubblegum pink streaks sewn between the blond of her hair. She is wearing an apron over what looks like a tan sweater and a knee-length black skirt.

“Oh hello!” She closes the door behind her and rushes over to you, “I’m Niki, it’s nice to officially meet you.” She smiles very kindly at you, eagerness in her eyes.

“My name’s Y/N. It’s…. nice to meet you too,” You smile lightly, trying to appear non-awkward.

She takes a step back, “So who's hungry? I’ve made a fresh loaf of bread and Eret recently gave me this really nice jam from some berries she found on her last trip.”

All three of you raise your hands slightly and she heads to the back, reappearing a minute later with the fluffiest bread you've ever seen and a jar of this dark red jam. You all follow as she sits it down on one of the circular tables and pulls up a chair for herself as you all sit down. All of you are silent for a moment, smearing jam onto the slices of fluffy bread and munching them. “So I’ve heard a bit about your situation but I was wondering if I could hear it from you to get a better picture of everything, would that be alright?”

You swallow your bread and start from the beginning. You tell her how you woke up with no memories, about the stuff you found, your journey here. You say how the three boys found you and how they had been helping you. “..and I’d like to apologize for taking so much of your bread, we shouldn’t have done that.”

Niki is bewildered but a soft smile soon takes over her face . “There’s no need to apologize but thank you,” she ponders over something for a moment before saying, “Though I can’t let you live in the forest, that’s no place for a child. And my house- no that won’t do there’s no room. Hmm well I suppose Puffy could help out couldn’t she?”

“Excuse me? Who’s ‘Puffy?’

“Oh yes sorry, Puffy is a friend of mine and a member of the town. She’s Dream’s mom, actually.” (Tommy pipes in, with much food in his mouth. “Dream’s the founder of this place! Thats why,” he takes another bite of bread,” ‘is name’ af’er ‘im.”)

“Puffy’s very nice. She gave me a pirate hat for my last birthday,” Tubbo said, smiling.

“She ga’e me a sword!”

“It was only a wooden one,” Tubbo clarified.

“Better than a lousy hat!” Tommy rebutted.

The boy started going back and forth much to Niki’s dismay, her attempts to get them to quiet down futile.

“So I’ll be living with Puffy?”

“Well,” She said, wrangling the boys off each other, “ it will likely be temporary until we can find someone to take you in for good but yes. So long as you’re fine with it of course.”

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⏰ Last updated: May 05, 2023 ⏰

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