a Cabin filled with Skeletons

Chap. 9 Finding Ink and More

You and Horror were outside as you could hear the sound of the morning birds chirping. For some reason you couldn't help but feel embarrassed by your sudden outburst from earlier.

"are you....okay?" Horror asked causing you to look up at him. "Oh I'm fine....I just didn't mean to....um..shout that this morning.." you said as you felt your face heat up a bit. Horror just gave you a small smile as he pat your shoulder. "It's okay...what's done is done I guess.." he said as you gave him a small smile.

You offered to hold his hand which he quickly agreed upon to do, as he guided you to a forestry path. A few minutes go by as you couldn't help but look around at the scenery. It smelled like it just rained, the trees were super tall and some leaves even felled on your head.

Horror couldn't help but smile at your cute behavior, back in the underground Horror would usually read books about humans and animals. But once Undyne became queen, she banned all books and order monsters to either burn, or rip them up, it's not like Horror loved reading books, he would just like to skim through some information about somethings.

"Horror look!" he was cut out of his thoughts with you whisper yelling as he saw you point at something. His eye light blew up in size at seeing a small white rabbit with red eye's nibbling on some leaves you kinda reminded him of a rabbit, cute, and timid, not to mention you were nice and kind...like a rabbit. Perhaps that could be your nickname. "awww....so cute..." you said quietly as you took out your phone and took a picture.

Looking at your phone you decided to text Mrs. Toriel that you were doing fine. "Do you come here often?" you asked Horror as he let out and airy chuckle. "Yeah....this is what Ink calls a vacation place since we all have jobs...and plus were still going through re-hab." he said as you nodded your head, you forgot that some of these guys had lost of problems and are still having them,

the thought made you frown a bit but you pushed past that thought as you felt Horror gently hold your hand as he started guiding on the path further. Horror stopped you in the middle of the forest as you could see claw marks on some of the trees, as You heard Horror sigh.

"oh....I forgot about that." He said as you could feel his grip on your hand tighten a bit as you looked up at him. you decided to not question on what happened here, as you felt that it had something to do with Horror. "Just....up here....is chopping place.." Horror said as you walked up the somewhat steep hill. "I already chopped up the...tree.... all we need to do is....cut it into....small pieces." He said as you looked to see some large pieces of branches that were cut. "Wow you must be really strong." you said as Horror looked away a bit bashfully.

"heh.....t-thanks..." he said as he let go of your hand and pulled up his axe as gave you a smaller version of his. you took the small axe as the handle felt smooth and hard, which surprised you because it looked like you could get a splinter from holding it. "Do you know how to....chop wood?" he asked as you nodded your head. "I know how to....but I'm not very good at it though." you said quietly as Horror nodded his head. "Well I can help you...." Horror said as got two pieces of wood one was bigger than the other, he gave you the smaller one.

"Okay so this is what you do....first.." he said as he used both his hands to hold the axe. "you do this....look around a bit before you swing...and then..." you heard a loud thud sound as the piece of wood was cut perfectly in on slice. " woah....that was a clean cut." you said quietly as Horror chuckled a bit rubbing the back of his skull. You could tell he wasn't very comfortable with complement's. "heh...thanks... mean when you have big hands and arms.... guess its easy...to chop wood better." he said as you gave him a small smiled and hummed in agreement. "and sorry...if I didn't explain...well.." he said quietly as you looked up at him.