Alice pov

I didn't know what to think ... was this a dream? ... I had fallen out of bed again and was unconscious? ... I really don't remember what happened ... because of my suitcases I can tell that I was getting ready to leave and cosplay somewhere ... I looked around ... and realized I was being really rude to the person in front of me ...

I dream or not, I entered a strange place that apparently was the home of this character ... it seems familiar to me but it was as if my memories had been hidden ..

manners first and foremost alice, always show manners ... at least until they make you mad and then let your claws out ...

- "um ... excuse me, sorry to bother you, I really hate to be a nuisance, but could you please inform me where am I ???, apparently I was left in this place and I really would like to find out how to go home ... please and thank you "I said looking at the subject who seemed to be very very very sick ... he was really ... pale ... why do I feel like I did a" pun "without thinking? ...

He stared at me, was he wearing a mask maybe? I don't see any faction move ...

- "Left here you say ........... well it is unfortunate for you ...... creature from distant lands ... you are in the dying kingdom of Hallownest ... the subterranean and decaying kingdom. .. soon this will only be nothing more than a tomb for all the inhabitants that were left behind ... very appropriate in my case .......... since soon my light will be extinguished as well as that of my kingdom and finally we will be consumed by the light that destroys the mind and the darkness that consumes the body "said he looking towards the horizon as if trying to see something that is not there.

- "Well that's depressing ... if this place is so bad, why don't everyone just take their things and leave while, I don't know, they do a quarantine until everything is fixed"

He turned to see me as if i had grown another head... - "leave our home?" said something silent

- "Well, yes, if the place is dangerous, it is normal for people to leave until things improve, why risk innocent people until the authorities fix the problem ..."

- "That sounds so simple, just take your things and go ... but no one thinks about those who are left behind" said the melancholic.

- "That is the point, those who are left behind are supposed to be the experts and the authorities, the ones who are supposed to fix the problem" she said

- "But what happens when the problem, no matter how much they have tried, have always failed" she said a little annoyed.

- "Well, they close the area of ​​contamination, and if they can't find a cure, then they purge it or seal it and move to another place" he looked at her and let out an annoying sound and began to laugh like a mad man ...

- "IF THAT IS SO EASY, SEAL THE PROBLEM, BUT FOR THIS YOU SACRIFY EVERYTHING YOU HAVE AND FOR A TIME IT WORKS AND THINGS SEEM BETTER BUT THEN IT APPEARS AGAIN AND WORSE THAN BEFORE AND YOU NO LONGER HAVE ANYONE BY YOUR SIDE AND EVERYTHING FALLS OUT BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WHO SUPPORTED YOU OR ARE DEAD BECAUSE THEY SACRIFIED THEMSELVES FOR YOUR STUPID PLAN OR THEY HAVE ABANDONED YOU BECAUSE YOU DEFRAUDED AND THEY DON'T WANT TO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT YOU " somehow he had gotten up from his chair and had been walking from one side to the other in front of me ... I don't know what his surprise was that he could move or that he yelled at me ...

- "I ... I'm ... sorry ... I'm not ..." he said hesitantly

-"do you feel better?" I said while smiling at him

He looked at me puzzled, and I dropped to my knee infront of him to be at the same eye level with him ...

- "Sometimes it is better to make a scene and take out what you have inside, than to simply leave it inside and end up devouring your soul" I said and pulled him into a hug ...

At first he was paralyzed, but later I could hear a little squeak from the cockroaches of Madagascar ...

at least it doesn't sound annoying ... more it seems stressed ...

- "why ... why are you doing this?"

- "Because it looked like you needed a hug ... and I am a very empathic person, if I were leaving my feelings in the air in this way, I would like someone to give me a hug" I said and took him away from me a little to be able to see it well ...

he clung to my sweater quickly ... I think he was afraid I would stop hugging him ... oh god ... he's adorable ... small and adorable ... that's my weakness ...

- "don't worry wyrm, I'm here and I'm not going anywhere until you feel better, so go ahead let it out, say what you have in mind no matter what it is even if it doesn't make sense ... here I am, and I'll listen to everything "I said and put his head on my chest while hugging his torso ...

- "What if I still don't feel better?" He said

- "I'll still be here" I said stroking his head, careful not to sting me with his spikes ...

- "What if after listening to my story, you despise me?" He said

- "well i made you a promise and i will keep my word ... also by your tone of voice, you can tell that whatever it is you are not proud of having done it, if you are not sorry for doing it at least is that ... wyrm understands one thing, life is not black or white, there are more colors, everything has an explanation and there are always several versions of the same story ... it is like when the hero kills the beast in a story ... he is a hero for some but a murderer for others ... or like the thief who robs the rich to give to the poor, he is a hero for some and a villain for others ... I promise that I will listen to everything you have to Say and don't worry if you yell or make a scene, sometimes it's better to let it out after all "I smiled at him and he nodded ....

And so he told me everything that was his story ... from how he himself came to this place, how he fought against a beast to claim the territory, how he became a god, how he met his wife ...

- "Everything was so simple when I was a beast, but everything changed once I became an insect" he said and took a deep breath ...

- "Well it sounded like a tale of the fury of the titans ... but so far it doesn't sound so bad ... you didn't do it with malice, it was only institute ... you wanted this territory because here was your wife, And she because here she had her people ... which you sacrificed your body to God to give them mind and thought and your wife gave hers to give life to a dying place after the fight ... "I said while caressing her head.

He let out a snort ... - "but things did not end there" and so he told me about how RADIANCE did not die and the so-called infection began and how everything decay after his appearance ... until the emergence of his plan and like this ended ... and like him, who was once god, husband, leader, king ... he lost everything ...

https://youtu.be/w3AsJ1kBKGo

- "I noticed that you didn't call yourself, neither father nor friend" I said and he turned to see me, for this he had already got up and started to walk around ... he looked at me somewhat sad ...

- "I don't deserve to be called a father because of what I did to my offspring, nor a friend because I never treated anyone as such and no one treated me as such ..." he said looking at the ceiling of the room ...

- "And your wife was not your friend before being your wife, your allies, some were not your friends before being your subjects?" I said looking at him.

He looked at me thoughtfully and a realization came to his face - "really ... I don't think so ... not really according to my understanding of what a friend is ... of course I saw my wife as an equal yes, but my fascination and liking for her went directly to the desire to make her mine and not to lose another being similar to me and she accepted ... and friends ... because no one ever treated me as the same always as a superior being and those who could have been called my equals ... they feared or detested me "said the very thoughtful ...

- "ouch that's lonely man ... so where are all those who were most attached to you, if it's not too painful for you to say so" I said, he looked at me and let out a sob ...

awww poor bug boy ...

I opened my arms to him and he came to hug me ... apparently this guy has a taste for being hugged, but apparently because of being someone important he resisted the urge ...

and another rant was started, he talked about how he failed them how he felt that he deserved all the evil in the world ...

- "You don't think you exaggerate ... yes, of course, you were the leader but they also lived here, this is also their people and their world, perhaps they believed that you, even being a god, did not suffer, everything that lives thinks and feels, without matter to what degree he does it, he still does it, everything that lives has a mind and soul, suffers, lives, regrets and dies ... deep down we are all the same "I said and he started to cry and shout like everything else. 

They left as it was true that if they had suffered, but he also did and still he stayed, and the others left ...

But what hurt me the most was seeing him see his own hands ... - "my hands will forever be stained from the void that I spilled when sacrificing my children and I will always carry the weight of that sin"

- "Ok, look, it's not that I want to justify your actions as valid, but I do think it was your despair that pushed you to do anything to save your people ... of course you did something horrible to ensure that your people survived, for them to survive something worse than death, .... becoming living death ... being a zombie technically ... but what about other people, no one told you anything? like, I don't know, don't do that it's crazy and wrong ? " I said looking at him, he looked at his hands and then put his hand to his chin ...

and his black eyes widened even more ... and the realization hit him ...

- "But it is because they believed in me, I am the king and a god ... they believed that I would always be right and I disappointed them" he said hugging himself ...

- "Well that's having a lot of faith in you and being really stupid at the same time ... you are putting them at the level of infants and it was a whole society ... it's like when you tell a child, touch that thorn and prick his finger You tell him again and he won't do it even if he trusts you "I said something annoying.

- "I ... they ... you don't understand" he said desperately

- "oh I understand enough, I see a man who sacrificed everything including his life twice, that of his children and even so they turned their backs on him" I got up from the ground and put both hands on his shoulders to make him look at me ...

- "You think you are the only supreme being and leader who screwed up big ... let me tell you the story of the kingdom of the UNDERGROUND, because your story is very similar to that of the king of that kingdom ... a long time ago"

https://youtu.be/FlO7QlKLVdo

The king stared at me throughout history, it was so similar in a way to his, the king lost his children, the king had to kill those beings called humans for their souls to free his people, but every human who he fell, they were children too ... like his adopted child ... he could relate with asgore i can tell ...

- "Asgore carried the weight and guilt alone, while everyone sought to have a normal life, all the weight of the pain was carried alone, his wife left him and likewise she instead of telling him not to do it, decided to leave him drowning in his despair and pain ... forgetting that he also lost them, that he also suffered "

I hugged him, - "many people take the easy route when pain and fear arrive .... some ignore it, others try to leave it behind and forget, still others resort to hatred and anger to hide it ..." I pushed it away a little and took his face in my hands ...

- "the point is that when something big that affects the lives of many not only happens ... do not face it alone ... everyone is responsible for their own lives and has the right and duty to do something about it. .... you made bad decisions, accept it ....... your plan failed, accept it .... the pain that you have inside you exists, accept it ...... accept your wrongs ... and seek to do right "I said and hugged him again.

He was so overwhelmed that he began to sob again ... I hold tightly and at some point he tangled his body around mine, apparently from the waist down his body is similar to that of a centipede ... cool ...

In his mind he saw the ghosts of his children and how he disappointed the only one whom he could have called as such ...

- "It all sounds so easy ... but I wouldn't know where to start ..." he said with doubt ...

- "Taking a long and relaxing bath and eating a good lunch" I said smiling ... 

he looked at me like I was crazy ... -"a...bath?"

- "Well when I become stagnate, the first thing I do is refresh myself, because if you don't take care of yourself, you won't be able to take care of others" I said ...

I could see the hamster wheels spinning in his head ...

- "I don't remember the last time I did it"

- "Don't you remember the last time you took a bath?" I said it horrified ..

- "And eaten ... I really don't remember the last time I really took care of myself" He said scratching his head ...

I took a chocolate granola bar out of my pocket ... - "Here, eat this, while we are looking for what to do with you ... stinky bug" I said smiling, he looks at the bar (which I had already opened) he sniffed it and tentatively took a bite ... he opened his eyes wide and ate it in three bites, I took another and passed it to him along with a box of apple juice (my backpack and handbag were literally full of books and snacks. ... long trips without entertainment that don't require batteries and snacks will seem like hell)

- "Ok bug boy, tell me where the kitchen is and I'll see that I can cook while you take a bath and change your clothes" He looked at me somewhat puzzled and took me by the hand and led me to the kitchen ... the way was long...

after giving me a quick course on how cooking works, he left me to go take a bath ... I got to work and there certainly wasn't much, so I decided to take some ramen packages out of my backpack and cut some roots that I found around and something that looked like dried meat, I put them on a separate pan and soaked it with a little spices that came in the soup packages ...

When I finished I made a pitcher of lemon tea (it was made of powder, but something is better than nothing) and two bowls of the soup ... it looks good to be something made of things that I gather around there ...

The king came in and was surprised when he saw the soup ... I smiled at him and we ate in silence for a while, and I could see that he hadn't actually eaten in a long time, I served him like four more servings ...

We talked a little about myself and I explained to him about my species and my world and what I did to myself ... I was the secretary of a CEO in a company, but I was on vacation at the moment and I liked to dress up as fictional characters in stories. I had to keep it in a way that he could understand me ...

- "ok wyrm, once we finish eating, do you have a place with a blackboard that we can use?" I said opening a bag of mini pretzels to share with him ...

He takes one and says to me thoughtfully ... "my study, why?"

- "I'll show you how humans solve problems" I told him and then we went to his study ...

We had the pretsels and the jug of tea so we got to work ...

We began to write on a huge blackboard all the problems that Hallownest had, on the one hand I wrote a translation of the things he was saying ... I could not read his handwriting ... 

and then we number them in order of importance and percentage of completion ... and we had a plan for the end of the day ... I don't know how it was but we ended up asleep on a pile of papers and books, he all tied all around me...

I don't know if it is because it is his instinct to do it ... or because he is afraid that I will go ... when we woke up I asked him where the bathroom was and believe me friends that was quite an experience ...

Afterwards we went back to the kitchen and finished what was left of the soup and went back to the study again ...

with this plan we turn out ...

1.- look for survivors and bring them to the city of tears as refugees, we would make the capital the safe zone ...

2.- working on something that would capture radiance to free his son from that place ... that plan came about when he said that it was a blue ball and an orange ball with legs that moved in jars ... He said that the blue was Lifeblood, a luminous butterfly larva that when consumed gave more energy and life points and the orange was an infection that had become sentient in a certain way, and I asked him in a dumb way ... why we did not concentrate on the infection in one of these, it seems that they stretch, it would not be better because this thing is not really a thinking being and it is already made of infection from the beginning ... I turn to see as if it were something fallen from the sky ...so part two was in design.

3.- restore the castle ...

4.- find if there are more of his children in the abyss or running around in hallownest, and see if some of his knights were still alive ...

5.- once your son is released, wake up your allies and look for more allies to make a committee as a round table to seek support on how to defeat the infection ...

6.- looking for a cure for the infected ... that came thanks to another silly comment of mine ... if the blue droplets are good, why not replace the orange droplets that are inside the bugs, with these blue ones ...

7.- look for an expert in dreaming things ... he said that the infection was produced by good, sweet and pleasant dreams that kept the sleepers under her power ..... another silly comment of mine resulted in this ... if pleasant dreams keep them trapped ... why don't we wake them up with something bad ... and so he planned to call the king of nightmares to ask for his opinion ... how convenient

8.- Seek how to lift the spirits of the population and make it more aware, as I had already said, he can be king and god ... but life and how to live it continue to belong to each citizen ... and thus a slogan was born.

"dreams and nightmares are for the world of dreaming, 

you make a real life in the real world"

somewhat harsh but direct and concise ....

And what would my part be in all this ... well, he thought that ... - "You will be my minister, my conselour in a way, my right hand, you will have power over all my kingdom and the bugs in it, only my word will be greater "

(I felt like joseph the king of dreams, better not say that out loud)

- "whatever you say oh great, wise, powerful and tiny king" 

"im not tiny.... how dare you impudent?"

-"yes, yes you are... and you are adorable.... and as your friend I have the duty to tell you so" i said to him, and he just let out a huff...

-"I'm going to regret this in the future do I?" he said looking at me but with a little smile... i can see because at the little cringe of his eye...

-"absolutely... and I'm going to enjoy the moment you realize that you are to attach to me to do something about it" i said smiling at him...

He just shook his head... -"come on human we must prepare you..." he said "for what?" he stared at me -"your clothing's and looks are to odd for a normal bug so we need to find you a disguise, I smiled wickedly and pulled my suitcase....

-"oh buggy boi, I think I have a solution" i smiled at him and he just raised a muscle eyebrow...

-"something tells me this is going to be a very tiring and odd friendship" he says and lid me to a room.

-"oh hell yeah, totally" I smiled happily...this was going to be awesome.