Here comes Napstablook [TEXT]

[rlynotfeelinup2itrnsorry]

 3:01 pm: my cellphone is different... where even am i...
 3:01 pm: maybe i'm dreaming?
 3:01 pm: this is a pretty big house....
 3:02 pm: how do you even work this app... it isn't like UnderNet at all... am i using it right... sorry....
 3:04 pm: found a window..... i guess i am on the surface? sorry you already knew that if you're in the dream. there's lots of humans here, i gotta, i gotta go....
 3:05 pm: i found a room..... it has lots of instruments.... like... a piano....
 3:05 pm: this is probably a dream, right? i should enjoy it before i have to wake up, right?
 3:56 pm: update: i can't play the ukelele even in a dream

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[rlynotfeelinup2itrnsorry]

nine.... nine months?

that's ... yeah that's too long...

i guess....

oh gee.....

[ a pause. Napstablook calms themself down]

i guess i can live with that....

yeah, ok....

that'll be fine, actually...

it's better, so...

yeah, i can live here......

[punful]

well, not everyone stays here that long.

some people go home pretty quickly.

wonderland basically spits us back out whenever it wants.

["It's better" though...Sans has a bad feeling.]

on the bright side, time back home is kinda locked.

so when you go home, you go back to the moment you left.

means your friends don't have to wonder where you went.

so that's nice at least.

+1 new worst fear

[rlynotfeelinup2itrnsorry]

[there's a good minute before Napstablook starts typing again]

whenever it wants....?

there's...

there's no way to tell?...

can you....

can you prevent it...

[another minute]

......even if you don't want to go back?

lawd ha'mercy

[punful]

[Ah.]

[He thought so.]

there's no warning, no.

and no stopping it.

sorry.



how bad is it?

i'm sorry this thread started as a cute lil knock knock joke and now it's just sAd

[rlynotfeelinup2itrnsorry]

you mean where i came from right?....

it's...

[the monsters who needed to see were huddled together, watching the battle on the small screen, holding their breath. it was in that moment napstablook realized that if everyone died, they'd still be there. they'd be alone. they couldn't die with their friends. They couldn't die with their own cousins. no one else would be left.]

it's pretty bad....

it's okay i love it

[punful]

yeah.



jeez.

i'm sorry.

all of us who are here are sort of from

slightly different versions of things

guess it's good that you're here and not there

[rlynotfeelinup2itrnsorry]

it's okay....

it's not your fault, haha...

especially not yours...

ah......what was your version like, then?

[punful]

[Especially not yours, they say.]

[It's not like he can argue without getting into all that, so he doesn't.]

it's a nice version.

the human never hurt anyone

and in the end the barrier came down and we're all free

or we all will be free

technically i came here right after the barrier came down

so nothing's really happened yet.

[rlynotfeelinup2itrnsorry]

oh....

and... it's been.... nine months?

oh gosh....

[They type and re-type the next question over and over again before finally hitting send and instantly wishing they could take it back]

in your.... version....
.....what was the human like?

[punful]

[...Man. That's...a complicated question.]

they're a good kid.

[And of course he answers with one entire sentence. Good job, Sans.]

[rlynotfeelinup2itrnsorry]

do you....

....do you trust them?

[they hesitate, but complete the question.]

.....both of them?

[punful]

most of the time.

yeah.

[rlynotfeelinup2itrnsorry]

["how?" they want to ask.
but they don't.
they want to tell him what happened, and why he had left to fight the human.
but they don't.
They want to tell him how easy the human made it look, cutting through the population as if everyone's entire lives were flowers you could pick.
but they don't.
that would make it too awkward.]

i.....

....i might still be a little scared of them...

sorry....

[punful]

it's okay

you're not the only one here from a world like that

it takes time.

[rlynotfeelinup2itrnsorry]

i.....

....thanks.

[they find it hard to believe that it will ever get better, but they take him for his word]

[punful]

no problem.

hope you settle in here okay.