[ * The child kicks a bundle against the door, turning and leaving with nary a care for the importance of the item left behind to the alter child dwelling within. He had more important places to be. So many plans that needed to reach fruition. On the doorstep would be a knife caked with dust, wrapped in an equally dusty red scarf. A note is attached. It reads: "THATS THE THIRD ONE IVE KILLED" ] (( from url where-are-the-knives ))
The sound of the bundle knocking against the lower half of the wooden entry brought Frisk back to awareness from where they had been dozing on Toriel’s couch, wrapped in numerous blankets to ward off the winter cold. While snow on the surface wasn’t as chilling as it had been in Snowdin without any sunlight to provide warmth, it was still generally far too cold for the human’s comfort.Stirring some, the child stretched with a yawn- before pausing when their foot nudged something and glancing at the rest of the couch to make sense of the event- smiling a little when they saw that Sans had fallen asleep there too. And right in the middle of watching How To Train Your Dragon. Granted, they’d both seen it many times before, so it wasn’t like he was missing anything, but still- Sans was the one who had picked it.Moving more carefully now, Frisk slowly rolled off of the couch and crept toward the door to see what had made that noise, making use of both the Christmas tree lights from the festive display in the corner of the room and the added brightness that filtered in from where Toriel was as she hummed and navigated around the kitchen just off of the living room.The lock clicked and with only a slight stick from the frost, the door opened to the snowy path outside lit up by the porchlight. Frisk stepped out into the cold with only their socks protecting their feet, breathing out a cloud of warmth as they moved around to the back of the door, having felt some resistance when it had been pushed outward.What was… was that Papyrus’s scarf? Frisk would recognize the item anywhere. But why would the skeleton just leave it there? Bending down to pick it up, Frisk walked back around the door to go back into the house- their movements slow as they unraveled the red cloth to find out where the obvious added weight was coming from.There was a moment in which the child gripped the handle of that dust-coated knife… before a sound of horrified shock escaped their throat and the gruesome length of sharp metal clattered across the wooden flooring, dropped as much as thrown by the human’s horribly shaking hands, breaths of air coming with more difficulty when they glanced over the words scrawled on that note. The third one…killed? No… no…“Kid..?”The sound of Sans’s voice startled Frisk back into the present, and their gaze snapped toward their friend, wide-eyed and still barely able to breathe from the shock, fear and memories of their nightmares flooding in, overwhelming as they trembled, wet streaks already down their face from tears that they hadn’t realized had been falling as they still clutched the dusty scarf.Sans’s left eye was so bright. Blue, cold fire wisping from the socket as he stared at the human in his own brand of pained disbelief… and betrayal.