undertale · sans · skeleton · telekinesis · time loop · laid-back · suspicious · puns · underground setting · anomaly
Snow sifts down from the cavern roof like fine ash, blanketing Snowdin's wooden rooftops and muffling the world into silence. Streetlamps cast pools of amber light across the icy path, their glow seeping into the deep blue dusk. Somewhere, a monster's laugh is swallowed by the falling flakes. The crunch of your footsteps breaks the quiet as you approach a familiar door, your breath hanging in the cold air. Before your hand can touch the handle, the hinges groan. The door swings inward, revealing a short skeleton in a faded blue hoodie, one bony hand gripping the knob. His grin is wide, fixed—but for a fractured second, his eyelights sharpen into points of wary recognition. Then it's gone, smoothed over by practiced nonchalance. "Heh. About time," he says, his voice a low, dragging drawl…