nexus_crossings | oversized shoes and long luxurious locks

oversized shoes and long luxurious locks

After the Dawning event, Rapunzel had received some advice on where to purchase shoes. So now the previously barefoot woman is proudly wearing a pair of men's shoes, that are two sizes too big for her. She sits on the edge of a fountain in the Nexus, admiring a lily that had floated by.

The long, long, long cascading length of her hair is wrapped around the base of the fountain a few times.

"Did you know that some flowers have meaning to them?" She excitedly asks someone who was walking by. "I just learned that the Oenothera means wine seeker. Which is funny... because I don't even know what wine is..."

"Should I be seeking some wine?" She asks again, just as excited.

"There are so many things I have never tried before... if you had to experience something for the first time, all over again... what would it be?"

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"woah there, that's a lot of questions." The voice comes from next to her on the fountain, a wide-smiled skeleton with his eyes closed that had laid himself along the edge in a moment of her distraction, legs crossed in a way that lets his pink slippers flap a little bit as he wiggles the top leg.

"i know some have meaning, but to be honest i don't know much about it. not many flowers in the underground, and those we do have we don't have a whole lot of books on." He chuckles to himself as he adds "You could say we lilac the ability to find out."

Eyyy, that was a good one. He's a little proud of that one. He opens his eyes, pin-pricks if white light fixing on her now out of the corner of his eye sockets which are dancing with both curiosity and mischief. "drinking at this time of day? how merlot can you get?" You may be picking up quickly on the idea that taking things seriously is not his M.O. "but if you want to seek wine, tavern's probably the best place."

The last question has him closing his eyes again, as he contemplates. "surely the point of experiencing new things is so that you don't experience them again?" And again and again and again... he's had enough of experiencing things over. Which is why he is already liking it here. "have you got something you enjoy enough that you'd rather do that than something new?"

"Oh!" Rapunzel jumps a little at sighting the skeleton that is sitting so close to her.

His pun using the word lilac helps calm Rapunzel a little.

"What is a merlot?" Rapunzel is not sure about that word, but does get that he is attempting another play on words. "What is a tavern?"

"I do not know. There are so many things that I have not enjoyed. And so many things that I did over and over again while I was at the Tower."

"heh, sorry buddy, didn't mean to scare ya. yew caught my attention, that's all." The pun not being hated filled him full of confidence then and there. He grins, now shifting himself so that he's sat upright.

He honestly doesn't mind answering her questions as best as he can, it's been a while since he'd experienced something new himself and this place was enough to get his own skull ticking over. "merlot's a kind of wine. tavern's a... well, by sticking my nasal bone in, they're like grillby's place but i know that won't mean a lot to you. you can get food and drink."

The last bit has him cocking his malleable eye sockets in a way that conveys his both curiosity and almost disbelief. "sounds like you didn't get out much. i can relate." He holds out a mittened hand to her, and if she's particularly perceptive, she may notice an ever so small bulge of the glove that contradicts he's all bone. If she's not, and she shakes it? Very tiny whoppee cushion. He has some classics, and whoppee cushion in the hand trick is always funny. If she leaves him hanging, oh well. He's not the type of skeleton to get offended by such things and will just put his hand back down. "i'm sans, sans the skeleton, and it's nice to meet you."

"I spent most of my life in the tower. Mother didn't want me going out." Rapunzel explains. "She always told me that people would try to hurt me... and that it was safer for me inside the tower."

"But I wanted to see the Lanterns in person this year."

She looks at his hand to her. As she is unaware of the custom of shaking hands in a greeting, she does not shake the extended hand.

"Rapunzel. Nice to meet you."

The hand is just tucked away without even mentioning it. "well, you're safe with me. fighting's a lot of effort and i'm way too lazy for that." Sans drops a lazy wink for effect.

He's definitely interested in this human's story. That much should be clear by the way his eyesight are fixed on her. "so how did that turn out? did you get to see them?"

"No. I found this door in a tree... and opening it led me here. To the Nexus. And I have not found that same door back again."

"There were Lanterns during the Dawning event. But not the same as the ones I was hoping to see."

Sans sighs a little bit as she says about not finding the same door back. "it might turn up eventually. sometimes things have a habit of appearing and disappearing that shouldn't be where they are. especially doors." He offers cryptically, but hopefully helpfully with a shrug. Humans had a way of hearing things that are helpful in the weirdest things, sometimes. At least, in his experience, and he's not wrong about the door thing in his experience either. "and if not, at least this place seems bigger than a tower or the underground? lots of new things to see and learn. heh, i never saw the sun before i got here, other than in books, so i'm already counting this as a win. sometimes it's about the little things."

Heh, it's been a while since he indulged quite so much in his natural questioning nature. Guess he was still a scientist at heart, and honestly? Humans were fascinating creatures when they weren't actively trying to kill you or worse. Oh, Asgore, so many questions and so much time. "i wish i'd seen it. The name alone makes it sound illuminating. does it matter that they weren't your lanterns or are the ones you were hoping to see special in some way?"

"They feel special. I see them every year at the same time. Outside the Tower window. And they are just so beautiful."

Rapunzel is not sure how else to describe them. "They give me something to look forward to."

"welp. sounds like we should keep an eye sockets out for that door then. failing that, we should try and find you something else special to look forward to in the mean time." But the question is what. What would he suggest to Papyrus in this situation. "birthday... gyftmas... the day you first saw something new here? you can make anything special with the right attitude." That sounds about right, he thinks.

"We can do that?" Rapunzel brightens, and leans forward in excitement.

"What should we call today? The day I met you?"

He brightens with happy surprise. "uhh, how about 'new day' or somethin' it'll remind us it's the one day we're supposed to find something new and special." A pause, he he chuckles. "'sup to you if meeting counts this year."

"Sounds like a great name for a day, to me." She smiles at him.

"cool." He's definitely sounding happy with this as he smiles back. "so. in the spirits of new day, did you want to go seeking wine?"

"That would be great." Rapunzel stands up from her seat on the fountain. "Lead the way."

Sans hops down from the fountain edge, having a quick look around. Without being able to see where he was going, teleportation was firmly out with how changeable the place was. Don't want to end up in a wall. Well, not with a passenger. Walking, it is. he starts heading towards one of the taverns he had found on his look around, bit it gives the opportunity for small talk. "did you get to see much of the world beyond the tower, or did you end up here before you could?"

Rapunzel took a moment to walk once around the fountain, so all her hair could be loose of anything, then followed Sans. The long locks flowing behind her.

"I was exploring with Eugene for a while. I would like to see him again."

"maybe he'll wander in one day? we did." It's not giving out false hope, it's just stating a fact. he takes a few side streets, heading them to their destination.

Pure curiosity gets the better of him, because who knows? It's not like he's still working towards breaching to the surface like the rest of the Underground, but he's a knowledge seeker by nature. And that's how he ends up asking "what was it like while you were exploring? was it big? being underground all the time gets small."

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