Mistaketale

Chapter 6 Dating A Skeleton Was A Mistake

(Conrus's date outfit by PessimisticOtaku)

     Literally the only good thing about freezing in a forest somehow thriving in a cave and trying to solve a bunch of puzzles to get to the next section with MORE puzzles, is that there are a lot of cute dogs. Sure the dogs may have been hired to kill you and steal your SOUL, but they usually give up after you pet them.

     Lydia and Sierra bumped into Skans and Conrus many times in said forest, each with Conrus presenting some kind of puzzle where the solution was way too easy or just didn't work in some way. After Lydia "solves" the puzzle Conrus would then leave to start preparing the next puzzle, while Skans would stay behind to talk to Lydia giving hints Lydia had already figured out herself.

Meanwhile Sierra would aggressively quoted vines to Skans. Sierra didn't appear before Skans, just kind of made her voice project stuff like 'ROAD WORK AHEAD?! YEAH I SURE HOPE IT DOES!' Skans would sometimes finish the vines, not even bothered by Sierra's ghost voice.

     It took what felt like forever because of all the stops and puzzles in the way but Lydia finally reached a small town called Snowdin. Lydia went to the Shop to buy food, took a well deserved nap at Snowed Inn, talked to some residents in the town, and finally reached where Conrus was standing, waiting to battle her.

     "HUMAN, I MUST TALK TO YOU ABOUT SOME COMPLEX FEELINGS THAT I AM FEELING." Lydia didn't realize Conrus COULD feel complex emotions. Sierra was making a face of pure and utter shock. Apparently neither did she. "I MEAN IT HAS BEEN MY GOAL FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER TO FIND AND CAPTURE A HUMAN, BUT I'M SURE YOU WANT TO BE MY FRIEND!" 'When have I expressed that I wanted to be your friend? I mean I don't hate you but friends?' "BUT I MUST BATTLE YOU! I'M SORRY HUMAN, BUT YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT YOU ARE VERY COOL." Sierra didn't know how anyone could think either of these people were cool, so she shrugged.

     "I mean, I don't know if it's all the snow but I think that you're really cool too! *finger guns*"

"*LE GASP* FLIRTING?!? SO YOU FINALLY REVEAL YOUR ULTIMATE FEELINGS? WELL I AM A SKELETON WITH STANDARDS."

"I literally have no redeeming qualities whatsoever."

"OH S**T, YOU'RE MEETING ALL MY STANDARDS!!!"

'wat?' Sierra had stopped functioning by this point. She was too confused to keep up.

"ALRIGHT HUMAN, WE DON'T HAVE TO BATTLE, I WILL SPARE YOU NOW. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO GO ON A DATE, MEET ME IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE, I'LL BE WAITING. NYEH, HEH, HEH!" Conrus basically floated above Lydia's head and left towards his house.

     "Do I have to go on that date? I'm scared," Lydia asked Sierra.

Sierra shook her head a bit and got out of her state of shock before saying; "I don't care what you do, I'm just going to f*ck with his sense of reality."

"So I'm going on that date?"

Sierra shrugs "Sure."

     Lydia walked up to Conrus.

"SO YOU MADE IT, YOU MUST REALLY WANT TO GO ON THAT DATE."

"Something somewhat similar to that I guess." 'I mostly just want to see Sierra mess with your sense of reality.'

"WELL SINCE THIS IS OUR FIRST DATE I WANT TO TAKE YOU SOMEWHERE SPECIAL. SOMEWHERE I SPEND A LOT OF MY TIME."

"Ok, lead the way." Conrus started walking towards town, Lydia had a hard time catching up since she has really short legs, especially compared to Conrus. He lead them halfway into town before Conrus turned around and lead them back towards his house.