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The day started out quite tame, since the monsters didn’t have to sing today. Everything was calm and relaxed on Light Island, but you? You were a bit bored. To relieve that boredom, you thought that going on a walk would be good. What harm can a walk do?
You were strolling across the halls of the castle, which was oddly quiet, but relaxing. It did work. You glanced at the doors as you walked, when the faintest of sounds caught your attention. It was like a hiccup, but it was so quiet that you might’ve missed it if the castle wasn’t empty.
The sound came from TooToo’s room…
Feeling slight concern in the pit of your stomach, you knocked on the door to its room. TooToo didn’t say anything or open the door. You knocked again and waited, but after a minute, nothing came.
Still feeling like something was wrong, you tried opening the door. The door was unlocked, so you opened the door slowly.
“Go away.” TooToo said, and you would’ve, but it usually doesn’t dismiss you like that. You opened the door and carefully stepped inside. TooToo was sitting beside its bed sniffling a bit, and with visible tears in its two eyes.
“TooToo… what happened?” you asked, sitting next to it, but at a slight distance to give it personal space.
“Nothing,” it said. But it was clearly not nothing. TooToo was usually quite positive, so for it to clearly be down cannot just be “nothing”. Though it clearly didn’t want to tell just yet.
You inched slightly closer to TooToo, but not too much in case it didn’t want you to get closer. When it didn’t say anything, you inched closer. Then, TooToo grabbed you into a hug.
You wrapped your arms around it as tight as you knew it liked and gently pat its back. TooToo squeezed you hard, but you didn’t mind.
“Do you need to cry..?” You asked, “because you can. You’re safe with me, TooToo.”
A few minutes went by silently, where neither you nor TooToo did anything as it processed your words. Before long, TooToo was sobbing quietly.
You just kept hugging it, letting it cry as long as it needed to, offering it gentle comfort and praise.
“You’re safe with me.”
“You can tell me anything…”
“You’re doing great.”
“I really like you.”
“It’s okay to cry.”
Eventually, TooToo stopped crying and a soft smile adorned its face. It pulled away from the hug and you smiled back at it.
Though you never figured out why it was feeling so down, you realized that it really didn’t hurt to go on that walk.