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Prologue
The kids at school once told her that Mount Ebott was where people went if they wanted to disappear. As her mom and dad, the two most important people in her life, left in a car accident, no one in her extended family seemed to want to take over the responsibility of raising a twelve-year old rascal…she wanted to disappear from the face of the earth. She told no one of where she was headed, barely escaping the nuns watching over the orphanage she was sent to live in. The nuns were very kind, and the kids there were friendly, but they were not family. Her days were dull, like the colors have been sucked out of her world. She spent them staring at a photo of her now deceased parents, knowing they would never come back. The adults during the funeral made it abundantly clear to her that that was the case, with an assurance that everything will be okay, as if it was going to make her feel better about losing her parents. No, she knows that nothing will ever be okay. Nothing will ever be the same. Frisk just wanted to be with her parents again, even if that meant she had to do it painfully herself.
The kids at school also told her about the huge sinkhole someone’s father found on top of the mountain on a hiking day. They said that the adults suspected it was where the missing people fell, because their bodies were never found. She figured it was where she could find peace, and fit among the lost people.
There was a strange kind of beauty and mystery she found, when staring down the hole. Where the light hit the ground, there were plants with yellow flowers that grew, flowers already on her grave. For a brief moment it comforted her, it wasn’t going to be so bad, after all. Only a brief moment was all she needed to leap off the edge. The wind whistled in her ears as she fell. Her heart thumped hard in her chest, threatening to jump out of her ribcage, mid-fall; the fear was setting in. She panicked and flailed in the air, but the thought that she could see her family again, made her surrender. The light from above was quickly getting smaller and smaller. She let herself fall head first into…a bed of flowers. Yellow petals flew all around her as she landed with a soft thud. It smelled earthy, like how the surroundings would smell when it would rain after a sunny day, or when her dad mowed the grass of their lawn… But she thought… she was supposed to be dead! She wondered if she was dead and pinched herself. No, she still felt pain. Not knowing what to do, she just laid there for a few more minutes, until eventually her exhaustion from the day’s events enveloped her into a nice, dreamless sleep.