"Well, we're gonna have to start an ENCOUNTER I think." Frobert muses as he rubs his chin. "This ghost hangs out down here a lot but they usually ignores us until Miss Toriel shows up and then they go and hide."

"Th-they scare me." Whimly whimpers, hiding behind a lock of Haley's hair.

"Let's just try and talk to them." Frobert suggests.

The pressure of what felt like a child pushing against her back had her taking slow, hesitant steps towards the ghost.

"Uh… e-excuse me?" Haley speaks up, wincing at how her voice squeaked nervously.

"Zzzzzzzzz."

"Uh…" Haley blinked twice and looked to Frobert, who shrugged. She leaned over the ghost and waved. "E-excuse me?"

"Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz."

"I.. think we're gonna have to make them get up." Frobert whispers in her ear and she nods carefully, furrowing her brow down at the other.

"I'm… I need you to move please." She says and gently prods them with her foot, hoping to get the ghost's attention.

Her whole body tensed as she gasps, the world flashing to black and white and the box appears before her once more. The heart, her SOUL jumps from her chest, but it looks… different than last time she'd seen it during her ENCOUNTER with Flowey.

Sure, it's still red, but there are spots where it's green now, like it had been splashed with some paint. She could've sworn it had been just that bright, glowing red before… odd.

"Haley!" Whimly squeaks, tugging at a lock of hair in panic. "The ENCOUNTER's starting!"

She looks up to see the ghost, watching her with such a sad expression she felt ad for making them get up.

'Here comes Napstablook.' reads the box in front of her. Gosh, even the box wasn't happy about this.

"N-napstablook, huh?" She looked up at the ghost and smiled at them. "I-I didn't mean for this to happen hun, we just needed to get by."

"Oh….. I'm sorry…" The ghost mumbles. "I'm just in the way…."

Before she could even attempt to comfort the poor thing, the box changed and her SOUL was floating in it. Squiggly lines dropped from Napstablook's face and into the box. Haley squeaked in surprise and jumped to the side, narrowly avoiding the squiggles.

"Just use you hand, it's less exhausting." Frobert quickly suggested before she fell over.

Raising a shaking hand, Haley moves her SOUL away from the attack. To the left, up a little, right- "Ah!" She yelps, three different squiggles crashing into her SOUL and she grips her chest where an intense pain blooms. Her HP drops to 11 and she winces hard.

Just as panic was about to settle in, the squiggles disappear and her SOUL drops back down to the menus. She and her companions sigh in relief. Haley looks back up to Napstablook and smiles weakly despite the pain throbbing in her chest.

"N-napstablook. S-sweetheart, listen-"

"U-use your ACT menu!" Whimly whispered. "I-it's common c-c-courtesy!"

Haley sighs and presses the button labeled ACT. To her obvious surprise, there are actual options in the menu.

"CHECK FLIRT THREATEN CHEER"

"Oh my good God, what the fuck." Haley whispers to herself. "Uhhhhhmmm…. Okay." She closes her eyes and bows her head. "Alright lil… whatever you are. I'm pretty bad at this stuff so… how's about you take over this time?"