#coontails

Kris' body walked lazily towards their classroom, their black and red coontails brushing against their green and yellow striped sweater with every step They took.

They felt the SOUL barely manage to supress the chills that threatened to ravage their body, their body rejecting itself because the form they were in was so small, so little, so wrong.

(Their body was as huge and limitless as outer space. They could cup the sun and moon and the stars in their hand whenever they wanted, or simply looked down upon the beings that resided in the lesser level of reality, watching in amusement as they went about their fleeting, daily lives that would be wiped out of existence as soon as they walked away.)

Rapidly shaking their head as if that would help the godforsaken (dream? memory?) fade away faster, they began to walk faster towards Ms. Alphys' classroom, their crimson eyes flickering to the door before they stepped inside.

"Oh, K-Kris!" Greeted Alphys, her timid voice resounding throughout the classroom, "Good morning! T-Take a seat!"

They felt a smile form on their face, directed at Alphys, that quickly disappeared as they walked towards their seat right in front of Susie.

"Hey, loser. What took you so long?" Susie teased, yet they could still sense the worry in her tone.

"There were some.. difficulties." They hated how formal and unnatural They spoke, "Worry not. Everything is fine now."

"If you say so.." Susie still sounded somewhat unsure, but she still moved on from the topic, "So.. the usual?"

They felt a smile form on their face that may or may not have been theirs as They replied, "Yes."

"Hell yeah!" Susie exclaimed, and judging by the positive emotions that bloomed from their chest, it seemed both of them were happy at the prospect of hanging out with Susie.

(Sometimes in the late hours of the night, when the moon hung high and the stars shone for everyone to see, they wondered why a being as high as Them would interact with the inhabitants of a lesser world. Yet another mystery pertaining to the vermillion angel that claimed their body as a puppet.)

They barely paid attention to the actual lesson until Alphys needed to go fetch her a pair of scissors from the supply closet.

The poor thing could barely even finish her sentence before Susie jumped up, waving her hand in the air like a crazy person.

"O-of course, Susie.." Alphys nodded her head, the sweat beading down it giving the fact that she was obviously overwhelmed away.

"Woo-hoo! Let's go, Kris!"

"Wait! I didn't say-"

Before Alphys could finish her sentence, they were already outside of the classroom, Susie dragging Kris towards the supply closet they had come to know as a home away from home these past few days.

Before they knew it, they were falling down, down into pure darkness. They instinctively tried to flap Their wings, to escape from the darkness that seemed so foreign to them as a being of pure, all-encompassing light-

"Kris! Susie!" Spoke the voice of a prince of shadows, "Welcome back!"

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fer sure maybe, fer sure not ! -x0vodka (oc)