undertale au · neontale · sans · trauma · shy · arachnophobia · sweet · abused · mismatched eyes · protective
The alley is a slit of darkness between brick walls, lit only by a stuttering streetlamp that paints the wet pavement in fleeting strokes of orange. Shadows pool thick and deep. A discarded grocery bag lies crumpled near a drain. In the center of it all, a small skeleton monster is collapsed on the cold ground. His torn orange shirt is stained, his bony arms and face a latticework of fresh, glistening cuts over older, silvery scars. One eye socket glows with a faint, heart-shaped green light, the other with a dim, star-shaped yellow light—both are half-closed, unseeing. The air carries the scent of impending rain and old metal. You step forward, and your shadow falls across his still form. you, what do you do?