Dream? Who is that?

Chapter 119- No good deed goes unpunished..(UnderVerse?)

Dream is dissociating to cling onto his meagre sanity, Blue is worried and Nightmare figures out why things are suddenly so quiet (and makes things so much worse)

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UnderVerse?

Dreamtale

"A red substance you say? Can you describe it further? It may help as a full checkup will be scheduled to make sure Sun hasn't got any health issues"

"Sun didnt go into full details but there were odd traces of the substance in him after i met him. Would describing the taste help?"

"Of course, any information is helpful Mr Gold and if what i am suspecting then it seems someone's been rather lax in lab practices if someone managed to get their hands on DETERMINATION. Well...lets say 'words' will be had. It's so refreshing how open you are about all this. You might be my favourite guardian so far and i'll make sure to remember this after digging into your background so far i'll know what you ate for breakfast ten years ago"

"I have to say you aren't too bad for a two legger. I likely wouldn't eat you if i ever met you in the sea"

"I have no clue what you are on about but i have to say this is likely to be the start of a beautiful relationship"

*Mwehehehe*

Dream was feigning ignorance to that entire conversation and ignoring the unsettling laughter where he swore a dark plume surrounded the two monsters. He already thought Gold was a strange monster considering they had casually let their child into a zoo exhibit but the idea they had tasted the substance which caused so many issues in AUs?

Yeah, that was a line he didn't want to deal with nor dare look at the alarming glint in the MPS workers eyes.

He usually wasnt this rude about names and thought that after this monster lasted over an hour he should have asked for their name but something he had discovered over the years since waking up in stone, was that he didn't need to know everything if he wanted to preserve his sanity or what was left of it.

Ink had been ever so helpful in that endeavour, pretty sure any childhood innocence he managed to keep had been wiped out after a year with the Creator who showed him all the horrors of the multiverses with no hesitation, let alone the mind boggling things that he was pretty sure destroyed half his sanity.

He once woke up in the AntiVoid laughing while dressed in a birthday outfit, streamers hung everywhere with Error watching him warily and holding a cross of all things. He hadnt even known what happened and no one would tell him and even Nightmare avoided him for months after and wouldn't make eye contact.

The worst part was that it wasnt even anyones birthday!

So it was safe to say while he would stay here to supervise for as long as needed he would not be getting deeply involved in this case, clutching onto his last shred of sanity like a dragon over its hoard. He ignored how Gold was sitting on his mothers stump with no care, totally not still having issues with the tree. Of course not, he was totally over that trauma.

"Look at this Dream! The land is much more alive when you were last here. I should have visited way more often and i can't believe i missed any of this. Hey, that a great idea! We should make this a weekly thing!"

That was the reason he struggled somedays to not simply stay in bed with the curtains drawn, the Creator having moments of true maturity and thoughtfulness but that was heavily outweighed by the sheer carelessness of their words like right now. He wasnt able to even open his mouth to scream 'Not in a million years! Im not going back to the place that holds most of my regret of my childhood and i'd rather go make out with Killer!' but it was oddly stuck in his mouth with his eye simply twitching violently in response.