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[At some point during the night, a new patch of golden flowers sprouted up in the mansion's front yard. Pretty at a distance, but if you looked close... Something else had appeared without warning, too. After a few moments of light (or not-so-light) snoring, a kid woke up in the middle of the flower patch, very clearly alarmed at this new predicament.

A mansion? What? That wasn't... Right... ...Hold on, why were THOSE FLOWERS THERE
They stood and tried to carefully tiptoe out, but that's easier said than done for a kid that just woke up. After tromping out and yawning, the worry set in. What if...

Slowly, they knelt down next to the flowers and began talking to them.]

Hello...? Um, are you there?

[If you caught Frisk after they woke up, they were probably inside, looking skittish around the dust or sticking money inside spider webs. Or... Raiding the fridge!? Okay, first of all, there isn't even power to run a fridge, and there's nothing in there besides an ancient plastic container, which they seemed to be eyeing with an alarming amount of interest.]

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[Frisk turned away from their Very Important Task of trying to slide a coin into a spider web to the candlelight behind them. No, wait! ...Taillight? Yeah, go with that.]

Hi. I think so. Maybe I'm kinda lost, though...?

[They looked at the tail and jumped to several pretty big conclusions.]

Do you know which way Home is?

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Aww, well... [Riwane rubbed the back of her head and smiled apologetically.] Well you see hon, rite now a lot of us are pretty lost... How did you end up here? Were you from Final Destination City too?

[Because if not, this would be the second person who wasn't caught in the moon blast that has ended up here and not from here... Just how many poor people did it affect? At that though, she smiled again and moved closer.]

Dunno where your home is, but I can help ya look fur it if ya'd like?

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... Oh. Uh... I dunno.

[They shrugged. That's a great question, though: how did they get here?]

I just kinda woke up outside. Is, uh, Final Destination City near a big mountain?

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[Riwane thought for a moment before smiling.]

Well, there's big mountains yeah! There's also this real big volcano where P... well that's not important rite now. Hm, there's a lot of places that connected to FDC... maybe your home was connected there?

[Or maybe they were a local, just from a different area?]

Does any of this place look familiar?

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Whoa! A volcano? Really? That's awesome!

[They're more interested in climbing up to see that bad boy up-close and personal than figuring out where they were, now. But STILL! It would be rude not to answer this nice monster's questions.]

Nuh-uh. Hey, are any of the mountains called Mt. uh... Ebo... Tob... Do... What was it... Ebott!

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[Riwane smiled and nodded.]

Gotta agree there, I love volcanoes myself! Though can't say I can even see a peep of it 'round these parts which is a bummer...

[Let lone, now that she thinks about it, she doesn't see any sign of the other mountains...]

No, sorry hon. Can't say that rings a bell, but if you'd like I can fly us up high and we can see if there's any mountains in this place that might look familiar?

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YOU CAN FLY!?

[THIS IS THE BEST DAY EVER!! Wait, whoa, play cool, Frisk. You don't want to get grounded for not using your inside voice in a big scary house.]

Can we? You probably know more about them than I do!

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[Riwane had to chuckle at their excitement and nodded.]

Yup! Sure can! C'mon let's go outside and hit the skies yeah?

[Sure enough, Riwane led the way out the main entrance and to one of the large vacant areas of the property. There she gave them some space before, smiling and giving them a thumbs up before 'poofing' right into a Charizard.]

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[Behold! Dargons]

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Really? Like... For real? That would be awesome!

[Frisk followed her outside, and pretty much did nothing but scream when she turned into a dragon.]

THAT'S THE COOLEST THING EVER CAN ALL THE MONSTERS DO THAT WHERE YOU'RE FROM

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[Riwane chuckled a growly laugh before smiling. She wasn't sure if the kid would understand her, but certain people understood Poke-speech so who knows!]

Not all of them no, at least none outside of Final Destination City as far as I know. Would be nice though!

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[It's a complete and utter mystery as to whether Frisk understands Riwane or not. They seemed to get the gist of what she was saying if not, though!]

Oh, man... It would be so cool if monsters could just poof into people whenever they wanted!

[They stood on their tiptoes for a moment.]

Is it okay if I get on?

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[His enthusiasm reminded her of her original trainer and it warmed her heart.]

They can as far as I know in Final Destination City, that's where I learned how to! I'm sure there's a way to do so here too.

[Giving an affectionate smile, Riwane nodded.]

Of course! Hop on!

[She leaned down to make it easier for him.]

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Yessssssss.

[After a fist pump, Frisk climbed aboard! But this was a very new experience -- stepping on some fish's face and riding an awesome dragon were two very different things.]

Uh, should I hold on to something?

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[Once Riwane knew that Frisk was secure, she nodded.]

You can hang onto my horns. I'm plenty strong so you don't gotta worry none 'bout impeding my flight! And even if you fell, I'm sure fast enuff ta git ya before yer anywhere near that ground.

[Once they were fine enough to head out, she gave them a reassured nod, a thumbs up and ZOOM! Off she went to the clouds!]

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[After the initial whooping and hollering that's expected when you let a child ride a dragon, Frisk took their eyes to the ground so they could keep an eye out for any familiar mountains.]

'S a big house.

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It is ain't it?

[Though Riwane was feeling the pressure from the last time she tried flying in this world. It was rough, impossible even once she moved further and from the mansion and past closer to the fence. Whatever it was was not allowing them to fly around outside mansion grounds. But for now she remained in place looking around.

The dragon pointed towards the southern part of the island to a large mountain range, and the only one in sight.]

Is it that one?

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I don't think that's it but it's some cool-looking mountains. The one I know's just one really big one, it's not a bunch of them.

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Darn... Well guess we'll be havin' ta try sumthin' else...

[Which really blew. She wanted to help the kid find his way Home but it seemed like they were stuck here like everyone else.]

Hold on then, we're goin' back down.

[And once she was sure that they were secure on her, she started the glide down. Of course making it fun by doing tricks and zooming here and there within the bounds. Hopefully that'd give them a bit of joy after not seeing the mountain they were looking for.]

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[You've gotta be kidding, being stuck in an unfamiliar place isn't so bad! If it meant more things like RIDING ON THE BACK OF A FREAKIN AWESOME DRAGON then Frisk was fine with being stuck here for a little while.]

So there are more people that can't get home, right? Are you all from the same place?

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[Riwane finally touched down and set Frisk down after a beat and smiled. Giving him a quick thumbs up, she finally went poof and was a human/dragon girl again!]

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Yeah, well, mosta us anywho. I've also seen a few folk who are lost from other places too, kinda like you. I hear them folk are pretty varied too. Some girl from a school, a military guy from another mansion and a very loud skeleton who seems pretty nice.

[She shrugged and smiled.]

They all seem like nice folk y'know?

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DOES THE SKELETON WEAR A CAPE!

[KID... Calm down. Not all skeletons are your friends. They chuckled nervously.]

Sorry. But yeah they sound pretty nice.

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[Riwane kind of blinks at him a little at the sudden tone but thinks nothing of it, maybe it's someone they know? She taps her chin in thought.]

Huh, I can't know fur sure, but I think they do?

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Papyrus...

[They stare wistfully off into the horizon, like they're thinking about something very important.]

Was he driving a cool car?