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As soon as Dream saw the two kings walk in he immediately tensed up, he knew that king Soot wasn't the kind to use violence to make one talk.... Techno on the other hand...

The guard opened the cage and he straight up went to grab him by his neck, lifting him up, his feet barely touching the ground.

"Now you're going to answer every single question i ask you, otherwise" he tightened the grip around his neck, making his gasp, as his air supply had been cut off "I'll make you feel a pain like you've never experienced in your life" he said in a low and threatening voice, releasing him, he fell to the ground, coughing and holding his now sore throat.

"How long have you had her under your control?" he asked sternly and without second words. Dream scoffed, but figured it would be better to give them a truthful answer, it wasn't an important information anyway.

"For around three years now" Techno remembered that in the recording Dream said he killed her family one year ago, and that memory was from two years in the past, the math adds up.

"Why? Why did you do this to her? What did you need her for?" Dream shrugged "She had pretty useful powers and was easy to manipulate" he grinned "She was too trusting, and she payed dearly her mistake" Techno clenched his fists in anger.

"Where is she now?" he lifted his hands "Hell if i know, i haven't seen her since you locked me up in your castle, i'm assuming she died to the cold of the winter, without her wings she was always very sensitive to the cold, so unless she found a nice house with a warm chimney, she's probably as stiff as a corpse by now" he said with a grin, which didn't set right with Techno, who punched him in the guts, making the air in his lungs escape.

Phil placed a hand on the king's shoulder, a silent request for him to calm down and not kill their only witness, at least not yet.

"Why did you capture those void demons?" Dream flinched, that cursed woman told them about that too, he gritted his teeth, not uttering a word. That's when the king decided to loosen up his tongue by using some violence, he pulled out his sword and sank it right through his left hand, making him scream in pain.

"Talk" he ordered, but when Dream remained silent he pulled out the sword and sank it back in his forearm "I'll keep doing this until you give me an answer" he threatened, a dark light shining in his eyes.

Again, Dream didn't talk, so he moved his sword up to his shoulder, threatening to cut his head clean off "I already have the information i want, i don't need you anymore, so you can either tell me why you captured them and have me spare your miserable life for a little longer, or you can die here an now, the choice is yours" he said edging the sword closer to his neck, soon drawing some blood.

Dream couldn't afford to die here, he had to save his sister! He had to live!

"Ok ok! I'll tell you!" he shouted in the end, earning a grin from the king, who pulled back the blade. Dream sighed both in relief and anger, he was really bad at lying, his tongue always got tangled up whenever he tried to say a lie, so all he could do was tell them the truth and hope that wouldn't upset the void.

"I made a deal with the void, the lives of all the Elythrians for my sister's, i needed their blood to kill you as a part of my plan" he chuckled a bit "I tested on you and it seemed to have a pretty powerful effect, even though it was just a few drops, shame that Angela sniffed it out" Philza reached for his sword but Techno stopped him, remembering something.

"How did you know that the void demon's blood is poisonous to them? That's not common knowledge" in fact, it was a very rare and precious information, only known by royals and higher up members, or people who were rich enough to afford such detailed book on the history of magic creatures, which Techno had read. Dream rolled his eyes.

"That Skeppy guy it's pretty knowledgeable, i made him talk" he answered nonchalantly "He's also the one who gave me that very useful powder" he chuckled a bit "He fell for the story of my little sister having nightmare that she wanted to forget, what an idiot"

Techno had had enough of his attitude and started to leave, stopping before he was out of the cell.

"You better hope that she's ok" he turned, giving him a murderous glare "Because otherwise you'll follow her in the realm of the death"

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Skeppy was going through some of his research documents on Elythrians when he heard a knock on his door, followed by Bad peeking in.

"Geppy? Can we talk?" he asked, Skeppy could feel the worry in his voice, he nodded, placing down the papers and giving him his full attention.

"It's about Angela, she's really worrying me" he mumbled, making him sigh "Yeah, she had been getting worse, now no matter how many or how strong the herbs i give her are, she barely sleeps a few hour per night, i often found her sitting in front of the fire, just staring at it"

"Yeah but that's not what i meant..." he started to fidget with his fingers, something that he only did when he was really nervous "What's wrong Bad?" he asked, walking closer to his friend.

"I.... i saw her stare at the knives in the kitchen..." he admitted, making him gasp "You don't think..."

"I-i don't know... i don't want to think that she could.... or would do something so extreme...."

The room fell quiet for several minutes.

"Let's... spend more time with her, it's almost spring, why don't we bring her out to walk a bit? We'll do turns, first Abby, then me and then you Bad, how does that sound?" he proposed, sprouting some hope back in his eyes "That's a great idea Geppy!" he hugged his friend "You're welcome... and please stop calling me with that nickname"

Bad chuckled "I know that you like it, even though you don't show it" Skeppy rolled his eyes but smiled nonetheless "I'll go tell Abby then"

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"Angela come take a look at this!" Abby said excitedly, dragging her towards a nearby tree, moving away some snow and showing the first flowers that had started to bloom "Spring must be near, look how pretty they are" she kneeled down, touching one of them, their petals immediately falling off.

"Wha?! I just touched it!" Angela smiled a bit, remembering that flower "Veronica Persica...." she mumbled "What?"

"It's their name" she picked up the fallen petals, blowing them away in the wind "But i like to call them 'Don't forget me'" she looked back down at them, the image of a tomb covered with these flowers flashing in front of her eyes.

"Hey Abby... could you promise me something?"

"Sure, anything for you Angy" she said in a cheery tone, patting her shoulder, trying to cheer her up as well.

"When... when i die... could you plant these flower on my grave" she reached down, plucking one and inspecting it closely, a sad sense of nostalgia hitting her "It would really mean a lot to me" Abby's expression saddened a bit, but she shook it off, Bad told her to try and be supportive whenever she could, since her friend needed her.

"Sure, i'll plant so many that you won't even be able to distinguish the sky from the ground!" she said excitedly, making her chuckle weakly "Thank you Abby"

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"Where are we going?" Angela asked as she followed Skeppy through the forest, carrying a small basket with her "We are going to gather the herbs you need to sleep, it's going to be fun" he tried to sound cheery but he could see that she looked beyond tired, he knew she wanted to sleep, she just couldn't, too many nightmares, and Abby could't divert them all.

"Why do you keep getting them anyway? I don't *Yawns* need them, they don't even work anymore" she commented, slowly walking behind him, Skeppy had to slow down a few times, seeing that she looked on the verge of passing out.

"See it as a constructive activity, like when you cook your own food, doesn't it taste better?" she remembered Puffy telling her something along these lines, she had thought about asking her help to bake a cake for the king, as a surprise, but then the whole memory thing happened.

She weakly smiled, shivering a bit, no matter how many heavy clothes and jacket she put on, she still felt cold "Yeah... i guess"

They soon found some herbs and started to pick them up, Skeppy, being too caught up on his own action, realized only about half an hour later that he had been wandering off by himself, noticing that Angela wasn't behind him anymore.

"Oh no..." he started to run back, following his footprints on the thin layer of snow left, relieved to find her sound asleep on a small batch of clovers which she was plucking, he chuckled, noticing that she still had some in her hands.

"I think that's enough herbs for today"

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"Angela look" he whispered, pulling her behind a bush so to not be seen, just as a family of deer passed by, followed by two small fawns. Bad awwed, they looked really cute.

"They seem happy" Angela commented, clenching her chest again, he didn't know why but Bad always felt drawn to her whenever she did that, but he brushed it off as his caring instinct kicking in.

"Let's go feed the duck on the pond, i've got some bread"

They soon made their way there and sat down on the edge of it, giving the crumbs to the small ducklings and fishes that inhabited the pond, Bad noticed she was weakly smiling, which was good, it meant that their therapy was working.

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They kept on the therapy, going out almost every day and alternating between each other for almost an entire month, but even though she started to put on a weak smile whenever they were out, Bad could see that it was a forced one, she wasn't really happy, she was doing it just to make them feel better, so he decided to confront her about it, switching turn with Abby and going instead of her.

They left in the early morning, needless to say Abby and Skeppy were shocked when they saw only Bad come back, a distraught expression flooding his face. They ran up to him, seeing that his face was bearing the signs of many hours of grief, like if he had been crying a lot.

"Bad! What happened? Where's Angela?!" Abby asked worried, seeing him shake.

"Bad" Skeppy called firmly, placing his hands on his shoulders, catching his attention "Where is Angela?" he didn't respond right away, his eyes filling up with tears again.

"I-i didn't.... she begged me to.... i'm.... i didn't want to.... sorry... i'm sorry...." Abby's eyes widened in fear "Bad... what did you do?"

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