After[Undertale]

Ch23-HAT 2

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...present day

I go to the calendar and cross off yesterday (Tuesday), and look at the Friday, which is circled. Jynx has 2 more full days down here 'till Frisk gets back from their trip...Then they have another few hours on the Friday: for Frisk to get up the mountain; unlock the door and let Jynx back up to the surface. Which is good...

...isn't it?

It should be.

I give the calendar a final glance and I feel a weak feeling that I can't exactly place. I've dubbed them as 'Phantom feelings', because they are so weak it's hard to see them as being there at all, making it really hard to recognise what the feeling is even supposed to be. Just another quirk of having no soul.

No. A quirk isn't the right word...a quirk doesn't make it sound anywhere near as confusing...and scary (?) as it actually is. Over my years of being alone down here I've started to feel these Phantom feelings more and more. And this one...it just seems stronger, if only a little, than the others.

I realise my expression has fallen slightly so I guess that's a hint at the kind of feeling it is.

I shake my head and go into the lounge, replastering on my usual grin. Not like it really matters. Thanks to that stupid venom Jynx knows it's something I put on. Although I'm guessing they already had an inkling before tha anyway.

I walk in and notice Jynx doodling in a sketchpad, which, among some other things, had been delivered yesterday on the fixed lift.

"Howdy!"

"Hey," Jynx says, looking up from their sketchpad and smiling up at me.

"Soooo...only a couple more days now till Frisk gets back," I mention.

Jynx looks surprised for a moment.

"...uh yeah...finally,"

Something seems off about that response... but then again I could be overthinking this.

Probably am.

I think I am.

If I think I'm overthinking it, then am I overthinking the fact that I'm overthinking or not? Am I now overthinking the overthinking of if I'm overthinking?

Ugh.

Why is my head like this?

"...I'm guessing you were supposed to be on the same school trip as Frisk right?" I say trying to start a conversation.

I've worked out by now that they're probably school friends, considering they're the same age...it just makes sense.

"Yeah,"

"So where were you supposed to be going anyway?"

"Oh it was this camping thing,"

"Heh there was me thinking you were missing out on something interesting," I say, trying to make them feel better about it.