Without provocation Chara's eyes fluttered open to greet the dim light of their bedroom. Immediately regretting the action they forced their eyes closed once again. Turning on their side in the sheets and reaching for the object of their nocturnal comfort.

Least to say they were quite annoyed to find their hands grasping the air where Asriel once was.

They sighed. The evening before the human had somewhat coerced the monster into sharing a bed. A tradition of their childhood. Not that they didn't have beds each to their own, but often it seemed one would crawl to the others under the threat of terrible nightmare monsters, or simply an exceptionally cold night. The later was one Chara often used, whereas Asriel was the reverse. As years went on this had ceased, for their seemed to be an air of awkwardness with Asriel at some point.

Perhaps they had outgrown it for a reason...

Chara grumbled under their breath "Stupid goat.." groggily sitting upright in the bed. They rubbed their eyes, shaking their head to help stir themselves awake. It was indeed the first good rest they felt they had in weeks. Perhaps due to the comfort of old practices, Or the talks they had. Pushing down all the recent stress seeming to stem from recent and upcoming changes of the status quo. Honestly they felt it shouldn't affect them that much, they weren't even important to any of it, a side character at best

It was weak of them to be this way...

'No, no, no' Chara mentally stopped themselves as they stepped off the side of the bed. Pressing a palm up and running it up through their hair as they grit their teeth 'Now is not the time to start this.. You just woke up" the mental rehearsal escaped their lips in a slight mumble synced with their mind. Quickly they steered their thoughts to the morning routine.

Breakfast was a good place to start.

The human dragged their feet across the floor, dressed still in their pants and sweater from the night before. Opening the door, they stepped into the large hallway and took a right. While New Home was larger and more majestic then it's predecessor, the layout was very much the same. Making it easily traversed despite there foggy, half lidded eyes. Once Chara felt their bare feet touch the cold tiled floor of the kitchen, they immediately went for the breadbox. Then toaster, then cabinet, then drawer, it was all a quick and familiar process as it was every other morning.

And still, they would get that strange feeling when they held the knife, even a butter knife had an odd effect on them which, but for this moment like all other mornings prior, they would brush off.

Plate in hand, they made quick pace back towards the dinning table. Pulling out the smaller chair and taking a seat. As the sweet smell of honey drenched toast waffed up to their nostrils, they took a moment to breath. It was quiet, and finally they thought to address the first thing they noticed this morning. Where had Asriel gone? His ceremony wasn't for a few more days, and all the prepping was done. Maybe there was something he just really wanted to grab from the shop? Honestly though Chara was drawn back to the fact that, as they saw it, Asriel would have at least woken them to inform of such departure. So with the second bite of their somewhat burnt bread, they decided that as soon as they were finished they would go at and look for the big crybaby.

For now though, the quiet solace was kind of nice...

"HUMAN, I HAVE COME BEARING A MESSAGE FROM HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS!" Chara flinched as the high pitched yell grated against their ears, the muscles on their face tightening for a second before letting out a sigh of annoyance through slightly grit teeth. Why did they even need guards? All of them were weirdos and a nuisance. It's not like there was much danger in the underground, besides, Asriel already knew magic, and Chara could defend themselves despite the princes overbearing counter arguments

At the very least they should get rid of this one, not only was he the loudest but the brother of his gave them the creeps, and it seemed you couldn't have one without consistently the other around.

They did not even turned their head to greet the skeleton that had just bursted through the door. Instead they simply waited as the royal guard ran up in front of the table side opposite them. He seemed to take a bit of a pose, presenting himself as usual with flair. Looking now directly at Chara's ill tempered face, his own expression seemed to lower slightly "OH, APOLOGIES" He almost seemed to gasp "I HAD NOT MEANT TO DISRUPT YOU, AFTER ALL LUNCH IS INDEED THE THIRD MOST MOST IMPORTANT MEAL OF THE DAY" Chara's look shifted to somewhat confused as the skeleton gestured into his next words "BUT TRULY IT IS QUITE URGENT I ASSURE YOU"

"Well?.." The human's eyes began to show impatience as they returned to a slight scowl.

Giving no attention to Chara's actual mood, he seemed to return to utter glee. "IT APPEARS ANOTHER HUMAN HAS FALLEN INTO THE UNDERGROUND, A CHILD IN FACT" Chara's mind couldn't even catch up to its own shock, Papyrus continued, still exceptionally giddy "ASRIEL WISHED FOR YOU KNOW QUICKLY, AS HE FELT YOU'D BE GREATLY INTERESTED IN THIS DEVELOPMENT"

As finally there was a moment of no more words, Chara slowly began to understand the full weight of this, and for more reasons that they could not easily explain, an anger began to boil within them.

"That is.. Uh, Yeah" Another human? They knew it wasn't impossible. They were here, and if rumors were true others had fallen over the years, simply disappearing as quickly as they arrived.

But this one fell right into their lap

"AND WHAT A WONDEROUS ONE THEY ARE, A TAD SHY AT FIRST, BUT THEY SOON CAME TO LOVE THE GREAT PAPYRUS, NATURALLY"

Chara rolled their eyes "You've talked to them?.."

"OF COURSE, HAD TO WRANGLE THEM BEFORE THEY FELL INTO DANGER, FRISK IS QUITE THE LITTLE ADVENTURER" Papyrus might have forget to mention sans assistance.

"Frisk?" A stupid name, they immediately thought.

"I KNOW, IT IS QUITE ADORABLE, AND FITTING" IT was ridiculous to Chara how enamoured the bone head seemed over this 'Frisk'

Frisk...

The more they thought about that name and this human in general, the more the sick feeling in their stomach grew. An angry, jealous, spiteful sick feeling. For the first time in a while, In a spur of emotion that was even confusing them, they had a sudden frantic, selfish want to wipe someone from existence.