“̀͢Sąn̶̢s̢̀͜-̵̸̷.́.́͝.̷͞”̛
Oh, this was the worst kind of mistake; he’d have done better never to leave those cracks and crevices he’d managed to seep back through. Every splinter in that carefully-constructed grin, every word laid down with the precision and finality of a slamming door- every flicker and flare in the shadows of his eye spoke it- no, screamed it, as the skeleton himself never would-
...Ah, but that was the rub.
He’d tried before, oh yes- entire timelines spent without so much as a glimpse beyond the hidden rooms in Waterfall, or the deep labs in Hotland. And again, others spent shadowing them- shadowing him- curbing every instinctive reach, biting back every habitual, whispered reply; because most of the time he couldn’t hear him, no, most of the time it was safe, but you never knew what careless whisper would prompt a sudden, eerily-smooth turn of that smooth skull.
It had been a problem, and an increasingly persistent one, as the timelines splintered and parted and shifted back and forth- so much so, in the end, that he had decided- against all odds, against every instinct and every lesson sunk deep into this half-liquid remnant of him-
....to try a small experiment.
And here before him was the result, oh yes. Deliberately and consistently attempt to reintroduce a piece of no-longer-relevant data and the system rejects it, will always reject it, can’t help but reject it. Anything else is aberration. Abomination.
Thin hands curled, straightened; met and parted and twisted together in the throes of nervous indecision. He could leave now, yes- it might be best if he did, in the end. Sans would shake off these brief spells; doubtless dismissed as residual echoes of other timelines. Things would settle back into place for him; back into their fixed, immutable pattern.
Live. Die. Fight. Reset.
Reset.
R E S E T
...He couldn’t.
(He never could.)
“̛͘.͢͜.͡.̀I̴’̀m͡ ͏́͜so͝r͢͏r͏͜҉y,͟͠ ̨̕S͘a҉̢͞n͏͏s͡͡. ̨Ì’m ̢s̷̢o̧ ̸s͟͡ó͢r̛r̴̢͠y̸..̸.̨̧”̢͘
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