"Ah-"
Splat.
"Ah-"
Splat.
How many times had it been?
Probably a hundred and something?
Linde felt a little dazed.
He kept falling through the opening on Mount Ebott, again and again.
Ever since he had touched that light, he had lost all his power, and even control of his body.
What was he supposed to do? Keep falling forever?
Suddenly, he felt as though something inside him had broken.
He could move his body now?
He immediately aimed for the flowers below and twisted his body, landing among them without a scratch.
Then another cry came from overhead.
"Hm?"
Linde sensed something was wrong and instinctively rolled aside.
A child in a blue-and-purple striped shirt landed in the flowers.
After a little while, she woke up too.
"Frisk? How did you get here too?"
"Mm... huh?! Who are you? How do you know me?!"
Huh? What was going on? Did she not recognize him? Had time rewound? Or had he ended up in a parallel timeline?
How had he ended up back at the very beginning?
"Hey, say something! Why are you just staring? How do you know me?"
"Uh, I... I loaded a save! Look, you should have permission to load now."
Linde still chose to hide what had happened.
"Huh? Load a save? Ah! What's this? Huh? It really works! Okay, I believe you!"
Linde was just about to speak when the scene before him changed in an instant, beyond his control-
"Hey! Stop spacing out and eat. I can't eat snails, so you can have mine too."
When he came to his senses, he found himself sitting at the dining table in the house in the Ruins, together with Frisk and Toriel.
Yet he did not seem to be in control of his body. All