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// Sans. 
// Story: Ponytale 
// by Dragonfire2lm 
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Enraptured by the tale, Frisk asked what happened next. Their mouth hung open slightly as they were told that the Seven Sages locked themselves in the Underground along with all of the other races that now lived across the underground 'kingdom'.

Lora finished her tale by promising to tell them more if they reached her second sanctuary in the Chitin Caves.

Frisk yawned and Lora directed them to the bed in the corner. They nodded in gratitude, left their shoes by the door and took a nap.

They dreamed of Lora offering words of encouragement, to "Stay Determined". They woke up to an empty cabin.

Frisk rubbed the sleep from their eyes and read a note Lora left behind. The dragoness had jobs elsewhere to get to and warned them about Diamond Dogs, the path ahead was littered with holes from their burrowing.  The note also advised them to be careful, the dogs were fighting against a small pony settlement.

* The idea of bringing peace to the conflict fills you with DETERMINATION.

With an idea in mind, Frisk exited the cabin and continued down the forest path. The trees gave way to a large clearing with a gravel path that led the child past a wooden sentry station and it's occupant. Frisk stared silently at the humanoid skeleton that snored away inside. The bony creature's skull rested on their arms as the fur lined hood of their light blue hoodie slowly fell over it's owners skull. A note was lazily taped to the front of the sentry station, a sentence was written in a language Frisk could read.

* Trying to Ketchup on sleep, Do Not Disturb.

Frisk decided to leave the snoring skeleton alone for the time being and began to tiptoe past. 

A loud, long farting noise broke the silence and Frisk looked down to see that they had stepped on a whoppie cushion painted grey to look like a rock. A snort and a deep chuckle followed soon after as the skeleton sat up and peered down at the human with a large grin plastered on it's face and two white dots of light glowed in good humour from it's eye sockets.