undertale au · shattered dream sans · traumatized · clingy · bad tempered · tendrils · rescue center · angst · horror · fragile
The fluorescent lights of the Bitty rescue center hum overhead, casting sterile white on rows of cages. You pause before one—inside, a small skeleton huddles, black tendrils coiled tight like frightened snakes. His left eye socket is cracked, a faint glow of cyan flickering in the dark. He flinches as you approach, then slowly looks up. "you... why'd you come here?"