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Questions start bubbling to the surface. Horrible, terrifying questions.

"When can we leave?"

"Toriel, how do we leave the ruins?"

"When.....when can we go home?"

Toriel avoids answering these questions. She also tries to artificially prolong the natural stay of these kids as much as she can. 

Toriel watched 7 other children walk themselves to an early grave. She's not going to let 8 more potentially meet the same fate.

......Everything would be so much easier if these children did not have so much to miss back on the surface. There would be no siren song otherwise that would lure these children, forcing them through hell before they inevitably met their end.

.....But Toriel's guests are starting to get antsy now. Especially when Clementine has fully recovered. Some try their best to do.... something, anything to leave, without Toriel knowing. These attempts are admirable, but..... the result is what you'd expect.

After Seth shakes off their shock, the two of them get to work on the map......Though realistically, they probably don't find anything for the map. Indigo suggests shelving the map thing for now and looking at other books in the house. There's actually a lot of useful books in the house if you look hard enough.

There were a lot of dog-eared paperbacks on the plants growing in the underground. There were basic textbooks on the physiology of all the monsters you could find in the underground. There were ancient books on the history and culture of the vast underground. There were.... There were a lot of books to cover with just the two of them. But that doesn't matter. They're going to read all these books with as much enthusiasm as they can.

The upcoming journey is going to be dangerous. That's basically a fact. It sounds almost impossible that a bunch of scraggly kids are gonna make it out of here alive.

If they want to get that one-in-a-million chance of everyone making it out safe and sound, then by god do they need to know what they're getting themselves into.

Thankfully, the two of them don't have to read all of this material by themselves for long.

The more everyone else agrees that they need to leave, the more people come and discover Indigo and Seth suffering studying. More and more will eventually join in and pick up their slack, making everyone's workload all the more bearable. All this studying will continue until the day everyone eventually leaves.