The Great Papyrus was great at many things and as such, he had a long list of achievements. Judging from the others' reaction, one of his greatest achievements was befriending Falmercia so much that she would allow him into her room whenever he wanted.

But he could do one better. That's right, the Great Papyrus had managed to convince the sloth demon Falmercia to join him on his morning runs! Although he hadn't managed to get her to run herself, he had managed to work her up to just above a normal walking pace and he had slowed down to match her pace.

Certainly, no one else could do this! And certainly, no one else could make her smile while doing exercise. That's right! Smile, genuinely smile. Not smirk! Not in a tease! SMILE!

They had been walking for a while in fact, four hours, as Papyrus had managed to get Falmercia to leave the house at 4 am, and as they were not running, he had needed to extend the time to meet his exercise quota.

How had the great Papyrus come up with this brilliant idea? Why, he remembered how Falmercia had told them that she didn't need to sleep! So, he figured that unlike the rest of his family and friends (Friends! He could now call Undyne his friend!), Falmercia didn't experience fatigue, and right he was! Even Undyne would have moved on and left an hour ago (less out of fatigue, and more out of boredom), but Falmercia refused to let herself get too far away from Papyrus.

In all honesty, Papyrus didn't understand why the others struggled so badly when it came to Falmercia, it was like they didn't realise that their presence made her on edge.

Sans had said that he thought that Falmercia had paranoia and Papyrus… had to agree. Even now Falmercia was watching her surroundings so very carefully. So maybe it was that the great Papyrus was the only one who Falmercia trusted.

Falmercia suddenly stopped in her tracks and her shoulders hunched slightly. Her eyes had stopped moving and were now pointedly staring at something. Papyrus also stopped for his friend.

"FALMERCIA, WHY DID YOU STOP?" As he asked her, concern started to pool in his soul.

"Someone's watching us." She said, refusing to move her eyes. Papyrus tried to see what or who she was looking at, but couldn't tell as it was a crowded area.

Papyrus tried to shake her worries. Why would anyone be watching them? This had to be paranoia. "ARE YOU SURE?... MY BROTHER SANS SAID THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE PARANOIA, IT IS A HORRIBLE MENTAL DISEASE AND IT WOULDN'T BE YOUR FA-"

The shaking of Falmercia's head cut him off, "I am absolutely certain." There was no doubt in her voice, and Papyrus actually believed her this time. "We need to get out of sight, let's duck down that ally way and head directly home."

Falmercia pointed to an alleyway directly to their left without looking, Papyrus thought it was a good plan, but Papyrus found himself hesitating. "SANS SAID IT WASN'T SAFE TO GO DOWN ALLY WAYS ON THE SURFACE WORLD."

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"You don't need to worry about that when you and I are together, there isn't a threat that is capable of defeating us," Falmercia said it as if she had already thought of it before, and planned it out in detail.

"THEN WHY ARE YOU AFRAID?" Papyrus asked.

"It isn't an attack I'm scared of, come on." Falmercia tilted her head back to the ally way. Papyrus hesitated again, but went in, Falmercia waited until he was a few steps in before she followed.

In the alleyway, there was a man, he was leaning against a wall smoking a cigarette. After taking a single glance at Papyrus and Falmercia, he scowled. Papyrus recognised that look, this man was a monster hater. It seemed though that he wasn't violent.

Suddenly there was a change in the man's demeanour and he threw down his cigarette and started to walk angrily towards Papyrus.

"Hey, freaks! What do you think that you are doing in my ally way! Go back to where you came from! Die you demons!" The angry man only seemed to get angrier, he picked up a broken piece of metal pipe and raised it to strike Papyrus.

The metal pipe was in front of Papyrus in a split second and the pipe collided in her face harmlessly. Papyrus vaguely remembered something that Chara once told him; attacks made with bad intentions cannot harm demons.

Papyrus could only watch as Falmercia swiftly summoned her staff and pinned the man to the wall.

"I'm sorry," She said, face inches away from the man's face as he struggled against the pipe with all of his strength. Papyrus knew that the man had no chance, not when Falmercia had super strength. "It's just you attack the wrong one, you said 'die you demons', and I'm the demon, Papyrus is just a mortal, just. Like. You."

Papyrus saw Falmercia put more pressure against the man, he stepped forward. "FALMERCIA, I THINK YOU SHOULD STOP NOW." He asked concerned for the man's life, but she didn't listen.

"But of course, you didn't really mean 'demon' did you, you just meant monster, but because you can't tell the difference you said demon. Well, I'm going to teach you now, I could kill you if I wanted right now, and never feel any guilt at all, while precious Papyrus here, a monster still feels bad for accidentally tripped Chara three weeks ago." Falmercia's voice was cruel, the only time Papyrus had heard her talk like this was back in the underground.

She was right, he did still feel bad, but wait- "FALMERCIA PLEASE STOP!"

"And would you look at that, despite how you just attacked him, a monster just saved your life, I'd be grateful if I were you." Falmercia released the man, and she must have activated her aura because he slumped to the ground asleep.

"Papyrus, we have to be quick, they're still watching, so how about we run?"

Sans watch Falmercia carefully as she walked to the front of the classroom. His brother had told him about the incident this morning in great detail, and it had both answered and raised a lot of questions.

It wasn't the attack in the alleyway that had caught his attention.

For one thing, he didn't think Falmercia had paranoia anymore. She did have someone that was watching her. Sans didn't understand what Falmercia had meant when she had said that Papyrus and her were some kind of dream team, but the identity of her stalker probably had something to do with it.

He just wished that Falmercia would TALK about it.

"Okay class, a quick history lesson to kick the lesson off," Falmercia said, cutting off his train of thought.

"For thousands of years, mortals have had small tiny glimpses into soul magic, there are even notable examples of them having advanced soul magic techniques; the greatest of all would be the barrier that trapped the monsters underground for centuries. However, mortals have failed to pass this knowledge down as they didn't have the resources to teach it." Sans figured that made sense, and he saw that his dad had already started to make notes, however, he was following Falmercia's very own instructions and didn't bother to get out his book.

"Mortals, of course, gained this knowledge from demons through deals or more formally known as contracts. In the demon community, these demons were looked down upon as these were very stupid deals to make. Why teach a man to fish when you would earn a lot more to sell him fish every day? I'm already hated so this couldn't possibly make anything worse." The class laughed, but Sans thought about it. She was hated in the demon community… that could mean something.

"There is one demon that has been famously been despised as he taught mortals the one school of soul magic that was basic enough for them to pass on. Healing magic." Falmercia paused to let the class absorb that in. Gaster turned over to a whole new page and started writing like crazy. Sans himself was having a hard time.

Healing magic was a branch of soul magic? But that was extremely common! Both Gaster and Papyrus already knew it!

"Okay class, who here knows how to use healing magic?" Falmercia asked, and Gaster put his hand up, as well as half the monsters and a few of the humans.

"Congrats! You have an automatic advantage in the rest of this class, on a side note, keep your hand up if your soul trait is kindness green?" Gaster was the only one to put his hand down. It was an uncommonly known fact that monsters also had soul traits, however, their soul' trait's colour wasn't visible in their soul.

"Take notes on this! Certain soul traits also have an affinity for soul magic, this is because soul magic requires both power and concentration to use, and certain soul traits are better at harnessing both. It is easy to be both filled with kindness and focused, but it is not as easy to be filled with bravery and focused." Sans nodded and stored that info for later.

"Because of this, green kindness souls are the most common souls able to use soul magic effectively, though purple perseverance is also pretty close to it. Though there is a soul trait that can wield soul magic even greater than kindness, can anyone guess it?"

Nuh ah, there was no way.

"Red DETERMINATION." Gaster guessed it, and Falmercia nodded, Sans felt his energy drain at the thought.

"That's right, red DETERMINATION, there are multiple reasons why it's so rare. Red DETERMINATION souls are the only souls capable of wielding soul magic with more power than black demon souls." That thought was oddly disturbing in its own way, as Chara was the only one with a DETERMINATION soul left that Sans knew since Frisk's soul had shifted to kindness since monster souls couldn't be DETERMINATION.

"What else can you hypothesise about soul magic from your knowledge about healing magic?" Falmercia asked.

A girl answered, "You can only use it on others with direct contact with their soul?"

"That's correct!" Falmercia confirmed.

"Wait," For the first time, Sans spoke up in class, "I have seen you use soul magic before without contact."

Falmercia nodded, "That's right, I was using it under contract magic, which allows the user to break the distance limits of their magic. Oh, and would you look at the time, class dismissed."