vague love

Stranger. Angel.

Such a kind and passionate voice.
It has taken you off guard as you find your soul beating, much more faster than before.
And when looking up,

white fur,
golden halo,
purple robe,

it all seemed to shined so brightly with the light radiating from the heat below.

An angel sent from god.

It made you felt calm,
so calm.
And that's why it scared you so much.

For all your lives, never had that feeling of dread in you vanished so quickly, replaced by an unknown tranquillity within your soul.

Are you truly dead by now?
Is this just another dream?
Were the one standing before you, an angel? Ready to bring you forth to the gates of hell?

"Come, let me help."

The woman even offered to pulled both of you and your brother up from the filthy ground.
Is this time?

"Ah, you're both are in horrible shape.
Do you mind if I.. Carry you both?"

Is that sarcasm or genuine worry?
You are not in any way in a 'horrible shape'. The same can be said to your brother.
You only had a slight but unnoticeable burn through your legs and Papyrus has some bruises and cuts on him.

Its nothing.
Nothing you both cannot handle.

But he's so willing to open his arms wide foe the woman to pick him up.

"And you, little child?
Come here."

You shook your head.
She frowned but agreed with your wishes in silence. Only signalling you to follow her as she starts walking away from you.

With being so exhausted and having nowhere to go, you trailed behind her.
Keeping up fairly well as you and her stepped into a what seemingly to be- a town.

With so much people.

Is this the way to hell?
With the way they are looking at the angel.. Maybe so.

But what kind of sadistic place is this?
Where the people smiles at the angel who is going to send children to hell?

"Nice to see you, your majesty!"

"Look, mommy! Its the queen!"

"Have a good day, Queen Tori."

The angel..
No.. The queen?
She smiled at them, waving gently and replying their kind gestures all the same.

The queen..
That does ring a bell to you.

But you can't quite remember anything about her other than the meeting beforehand.

It doesn't matter.
As long as her subjects took no notice of you, that'd be great.

"Your majesty, who are these younglings?"

Ah, you jinxed it.

She explained to them about you and your brother. From the unknown ways of how the both of you appeared in such weird conditions and how it seemed--
both of you are the only ones to be skeletons.

Apparently, skeletons monster had gone extinct.

But wasn't your creator a skeleton too?
Surely.
Surely there are some skeletons around.

There's a huge doubt within your soul so you don't spend too much time dwelling on it.

And as you snapped back into reality, her subjects began to dissipate, understanding of the situation and wishing luck for us, parting their ways with warm goodbyes.

Yes. Less people near you.
Good.

"Sorry for that, child.
I hope its not an inconvenience for you both."

"N-no!
Um.. Is it true you are a queen?"

Papyrus seemed more social than usual. How endearing yet somehow saddening to you.
He's like a completely different kid.

"Oh, of course!
I'm Queen Toriel!
Just call me Toriel.

Ah, I just remembered something-!
What's your name, child?"

"Oh! Oh!
My name's um..."

He's not Papyrus anymore.

"horton. his name is horton, your majesty."

"Yeah, Horton!"

See?

He even forgot about his own name.
Why is the disaster before causing this? You don't know, of course.

You never know. You didn't care to know.
You felt a slight hint of regret for not caring.

"Oh!
Uhm, you don't have to call me with such titles-
Toriel is just fine!

What is your name, little one?"

It only took a second to came up with Papyrus's bullshit name but you hadn't give yours much of a thought.
You are not comfortable in anyway with the name Sans. Not now anyway.

It feel foreign in your mind and tongue.

So you just spoke without thinking.

"eric.."

It was the name of one of mother's assistant. The one that took Papyrus away for the last time.

Great.
You're dumb.

"Eric..?
That's a lovely name, dear!

Now come, the castle will be near if we use the boat from here."

"Is the castle big?"

"Yes!"

Their words of exchange was drowned out by the numbness in your soul.
It isn't as big as it was before.
The void.

But in that exact moment, you just wanted to run up to the angel. And wrap your arms around her.
Begging her to send you to hell faster.