Frisk tried to escape the monster's grip, without success. However, in the daylight, she could see him with more ease; he was not much taller than her and wore torn clothes, which were also old and dirty. A hood was covering his head and the remaining part of his severed arm was wrapped into a bandage. She also was not surprised to see how mad he looked. But, most interestingly, he, like Papyrus, was a skeleton.
- «Let me go! You... you... monster!» she screamed.
As she was trying to fight back, he grabbed her forearm with even more strength.
- «Stop shouting you brat, do you want someone to find us?» the monster told her.
She looked at him with incomprehension. Shouldn't he wish for a mob of monsters to come and surround her with forks and torches? Weren't humans public ennemy number one? Unless, she thought, he wanted all of the fame and credits all for himself.
- «I said let go!» she shouted.
The girl finally succeeded to get rid of the skeleton's grip, but fell forwards. However, before she could touch the ground, Frisk felt the most intense vertigo of her life; her vision faded, the sky became the ground-or did it?-she could not tell. All of her orientation senses seemed to be gone and it reminded her of when she almost drowned before reaching the Isle. A senseless fall that could only break your breath. And then, she touched the ground and the shock reminded her it still existed despite her out-of-this-world episode. What had happened?
She looked around, she was back at the little cave she had just left, and the skeleton monster was standing right next to her, blocking the exit. There were no other ways out.
He bent towards her and said:
- «Listen, child. I"m not really willing to kill y'a, but I might have to. But that can come later. No, what I truly want to know, is where you got this.»
He then pointed with a finger towards her pendant. She looked at him, surprised.
- «Why... why do you want to know?»
- «Look kid, I have no idea what you were told about this place. But one thing is for sure, you could not have arrived at a worse moment.»
- «I did not make the choice to come here! I did nothing wrong! Please, don't kill me!»
- «Calm down kiddo, I'm just telling you, things are not going well around here right now. And that pendant you have around your neck, well I really need it. Give it to me and tell me where you got it, and, well, I'll let you go, though it doesn"t mean you will last very long.»
At first, it sounded like a potential deal, although the loss of her protector would represent a great loss in this world she knew nothing about. She would be directionless and defenceless. Still, she considered it. After all, wasn't life priceless?
She started to reach for the pendant, meaning to give it to the skeleton, but something stopped her in her movement. She could not tell if it was fear, uncertainty or something else. Whatever the answer was, though, she was not able to continue her motion. Giving the pendant away was an impossibility. She retracted her hand.
- «I... I can't give it to you I-» she started.
- «Oh well, I guess I have to do everything, don't I?»
His hand moved towards the pendant, which, oddly, started to glow.
- «No, wait you don't understa-»
As he touched the heart locket, a purple blast of magic propelled him backwards with an astonishing force. He fell down at an impressive distance and stayed on the ground, knocked out. She could not believe what had happened. But, even in her incredulity, she seized the occasion and ran out of the cave, feeling, however, a little light-headed. In her rush, she did not even take the time to see where she was going and noticed she had opted for a staircase leading to one of the floating pieces of land, which had a river crossing into it. The river in itself floated in the sky, but was passing through the floating piece of ground . As she reached the top, she felt even weaker. Was it due to the adrenaline dropping down, or the fear coming back to crush her soul? As far as she could tell, the only thing Frisk wished was to sleep. She approached the river in order to catch her breath. However, the fatigue was gaining her. And thus, the world turned black and she slept.