[text; rescuer network]

[determinate]

This is Frisk.

How is everyone? Where are you?

Does anybody need anything?

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[voice to text]

[spokethetruth]

Hello, Frisk, I am good.
We have settled in a living space here. The others have work.
I just wish it were easier to be awake in the day.

Have you done well?

[text]

[determinate]

Yeah, we're okay! I got a job cleaning at this restaurant. They said I was too short for most of the other jobs but it's fine.

Are you nocturnal? Or did you live underground or something?

[spokethetruth]

Yes, trolls are nocturnal! The sun on my planet can be deadly to my kind, but the nights are also very long.

The sun here is less burning, but it's still hard on my eyes.

[determinate]

That's cool! A lot of the monsters who used to live underground had trouble with the sun when they came up. Some of them decided to be nocturnal too! They weren't really before because there wasn't much of a day and night, but it worked out.

Maybe you can get some really good sunglasses and a hat.

[spokethetruth]

Trolls live underground when they are first hatched. It's not until years have gone that they rise to the surface. My raising was different, though, because my guardian was a rare day walker.

I would like to meet these monster friends.

I do have sunglasses now. I find the clothing here very interesting.

[determinate]

I should introduce you after all this!

They all used to live underground, but that's just because they were trapped there. Most of them grew up underground because they were there for so long. But now everybody lives together on the surface.

The clothes here are weird. I know some people back home who would like it though. Do the sunglasses help a lot?

[spokethetruth]

Yes! They don't stop from wanting sleep, but I can be good with this.

Did you come for a monster friend or another human?

[determinate]

My friend Sans and my mom. They're both monsters.

Sans is in the Virgo company. My mom isn't a musician anymore, but Silver says that doesn't mean they let her go and they've probably got her somewhere else.

[spokethetruth]

Oh...I'm sorry for that. I didn't know there were more prisoners than the one we can see. All the more importance to the thing.

It's brave of you to come alone. You are still young as a human.

[determinate]

I didn't either until I got here. We should probably look in their basements.

It's okay. I was alone most of the time in the Underground.

[spokethetruth]

I was alone as a wiggler child also. Not for all of it, but for some, when I decided to try to help others. The friend I am here for is one of the closest friends I met on that journey.

A mom is your chosen guardian, right?

[determinate]

Kind of. Normally a mom is related to you, but I got to choose my mom.

You went on a journey to help people?

[spokethetruth]

I think so yes!

I was a teacher. I tried to teach them ways of living that would improve their lives. Kindness and compassion. My kind are not good at those things with the way they have been taught.

[determinate]

That's so neat! How did you do it?

I had to help some of the monsters not hate humans anymore, but I don't think I really taught them.

[spokethetruth]

It is all learning I think...teaching and then learning. Learning to understand learning to change.

Sometimes you teach others without knowing.

I only had some understandings that the others didn't, blessed by a wiggling without certain hatred. I tried to have them see themselves from my eyes.

[determinate]

You wiggled?

[He doesn't look like a slime.]

[spokethetruth]

Oh...yes! Sort of speaking. It's the word trolls use for their young kinds. We are insects, and begin as wigglers. Small larvae.

[determinate]

Oh, like Migosp!

Humans call their young kids. Most monsters do too, I guess.

[spokethetruth]

I remember that from language learning but it doesn't come to thought always, I guess. The wiggling...is distinctive.

Most trolls don't care for the young, though. My youth was unusual that way.

[determinate]

Why not?

[spokethetruth]

They do not respect the weak and helpless. Many young die before they ever pupate. I would have, if I had not been saved by my guardian.

[determinate]

But kids are mostly weak. They're supposed to be.

[spokethetruth]

I think so also.

But many troll are born at one time. We expect many will die before becoming old and pupating. It causes our kind to be cruel. Uncaring. Those that die are called unworthy.

[determinate]

A long time ago, there was a war between humans and monsters. The humans won, so they locked all the monsters underground forever. Then there were stories about how monsters were bad and scary, and that's why they had to go down there.

I guess it's like that. People want to say they were right.

[spokethetruth]

Yes...They want to justify their cruelty against other kinds, and so they choose to believe their lies. But that is the different teaching can make, if they listen enough.

What are monsters actual?