Hi guys! Sorry for taking so long with this chapter! I just have been doing some things that keep me a little busy. But, here it is!

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Chapter 9- Questions from a Ghost

Jordan looked over his growing dictionary of sign language. He finished sketching the most recent sign and it's meaning, then looked over the book to refresh his memory on the signs he'd learn.

It had been about four days since his and Chara's first lesson in sign language. Chara was still struggling with keeping track of the signs for the tests, so Jordan had decided to use his returned test sheets (with corrections of course) to make a book for both of them to study each night. After every lesson, when he received his sheet back, he'd sketch the signs on it into one of the blank notebooks he had bought from a nearby shop here in Snowdin.

And still, Chara was having trouble with even the signs for the alphabet, even with the studying she's done.

"Why does it have to be so fudging hard?!" she cried after looking over her latest test sheet. She once again got two thirds of it wrong, and Frisk and Flowey were starting to worry about it.

Mostly because she wasn't that good with spelling either. When she lived on the Surface, she hadn't gone to school, and learned the alphabet from one of her only friends in secret. So, not only were they teaching her sign language, Frisk, Flowey, and Jordan were teaching her how to spell properly.

"You'll get it eventually," Jordan said with a sigh. "Sometimes learning things is hard."

"Hey, can I asked something?" Chara asked, looking around for any of the monsters who lived in the house. Luckily, they had all went over to Hotland (Jordan could guess that the name meant that area of the Underground was very hot) by a call from Mettaton, who Jordan had yet to meet.

"Sure, go ahead," Jordan said.

"What's it like on the Surface these days?"

This caught Jordan slightly off guard. "Well," he said, trying to think of a way to explain this. "It's very technological nowadays. Most people are on their phones, tablets, or computers, and there are a lot of things on the internet. Our medicine has advanced a lot, and so has our police force. Although, there are the occasional terrorist attacks, which most people really dislike. Still, we are mostly peaceful, even though we may go into another war soon."

"A war?" Chara asked, interested. "With who?"

Jordan sighed. "A terrorist group named ISIS," he answered. "They've taken the Muslim religion and put it on it's head. They're literally killing anyone who does not follow their version of it, and are trying to get people to join them." He paused, thinking for a moment. "Wait, if we could somehow gets monsterkind free, we could possibly scare ISIS into backing down!"

"Look, what I'm about to say is going to probably make you angry with me," Chara said. "but ISIS seems like a pretty good example on why humanity is horrible."

"You can't judge an entire race by one group of people," Jordan said. "Most people are nice, and would rather have peace than war. Just because you think that the group of people you knew on the Surface were cruel, you "don't think the entire human race is."

"Yeah, but humanity seal monsterkind down here for no reason," Chara growled.

Jordan looked at her. "There is a reason why they did that," he said. "They were afraid of what monsters could do if they got their hands on a human soul. Fear can lead a man, woman, or child to do something very, very stupid."

This seemed to quiet the ghost's questions. She then sighed, and looked out the window.

Jordan was kinda glad his twitch in his cheek hadn't popped up.

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Sorry about the short chapter guys, but I really didn't have a lot of inspiration when writing. However, I have made a poll for the story!

If you want to help me decide on doing another cover art contest for this story, go to my profile and answer the poll! I will greatly appreciate it if you do!

~Arana