May 2020

Hey Aliza, what would you do if another human fell in the underground?

She looks sick, looking down at her feet.

“I… I want to say I’d try to help them get out… but… my dad and Papy are sick, and hungry, and trapped here. A… a human soul could get them out.”

She let out a quickly hidden sob, her eyes swimming with tears.

“I-I… I don’t want to have to make that decision… I don’t wanna kill anyone, or… or let daddy kill them either… why does anyone else need to die…”

Hey Aluza what do you think of your dads head "wound" and has he told you how he got it?

Aliza sent a glance to her father’s profile covertly, looking away again very quickly.

“He… that’s a touchy subject. He gets really angry, when anyone brings it up or if something gets caught in it and makes it hurt. He has to go to the basement for awhile, after. …all he’s told me is that a friend did it to him, and he’d be more than willing to… um. Erciprotate. …I don’t know that word, but he broke the table when he said it, so I have to guess it’s not nice.”

Hey Aliza has your dad ever told you about a talking flower?

Aliza blinked, sending her father a glance. His face has hardened, his jaw locked, and his hands are clenched so hard his knuckles creak.

“Yeah, he’s warned me to stay away from any I see. Dunno why, though. Mama’s journal said the talking flowers were just plants. Eee… Eech-oo flowers. They copy your voice, like a party trick!”

Sans’ stony expression cracks at that, and a chuckle escapes him.

“echo, precious. eh-koh.”

He Aliza what do you think of your grandmother and what does Sans thinknoff her?

Aliza shrugs stiffly, looking down to the toes of her shoes.

“She was sick. I don’t think she meant to be so mean to me… She took care of me the best she could.”

Sans scoffed, in the background.

“she beat you, didn’t feed you or clothe you, and refused to teach you anything. bitch can rot in a hole.”

“Daddy!!”

“sorry, honey.”

He doesn’t sound like he is.

Aliza what are you eating during your stay? I assume sans isn’t letting you eat monsters.

“Well… in the beginning, I had some food that I brought down with me… but it didn’t last long, even though daddy didn’t let me share it. He finds cans sometimes that he gives me, too… but most of the time, meat is all there is. He doesn’t like it, but… um. I really don’t mind… I get so hungry…”

She looks guilty, and sheds a single tear tinged with blackness.

Hey aliza if you could would you play charades with your dad. Or have you

“Chahh… rad… aees? What’s that. A game?! I like games!” she crows, pulling her father’s sleeve eagerly, and Sans huffs out a chuckle, looking over her shoulder at the request.

“pronounced sher-aides, precious. it’s a game where one person acts out a word, without speaking, and the others have two minutes to guess what it is. wanna try it? pap used to love playing,” he commented, attempting to smooth down a stubborn lock of hair on the top of her head while she bounced in place eagerly.

“Oh yes please~”

Hey Aliza, if you could surface today, what would you like to show your father first?

“…well, uhm. Honestly? I’d want him to come out to the sea at night. I’ve only been there once, when I was still in school; we went out on a field trip to see a meteor shower. It was… the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. You could see forever, every star in the sky. …dad loves the stars. He’s shown me his books, the stuff he’s collected from the dump about space and the universe. His old telescope. I think it’d make him really happy… and he deserves to be happy. He works so hard.”

Hey Aliza how much of the town have you explored? Any favourite spots :)

“A lot of it, I think! There’s not a whole lot of it, really… daddy said only about five hundred monsters lived here, even at it’s fullest. But there’s some neat old stores, and a park, and a good pond that uncle Papy said he’d take me ice skating on- Grillby’s! It makes dad sad to go there, so I just go by myself. It’s dusty in there, but it’s cozy and warm, even without power. Almost like there’s a fire burning in there somewhere… but my favorite place is home. Never really had someplace to call that… but I do now.”