[Halloween Event]

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Somewhere in the castle, there's a panicked voice calling out.

"S-someone help!"

There doesn't seem to be anything particularly wrong with Asriel at first, though it's alarming that he's currently sprawled out on the floor and laying on his stomach. But the bottom half of him?

It's definitely a very long, fish tail. The tail flops behind him, but Asriel doesn't look like he's making any progress going anywhere. Not while he's on land, anyway. 

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Frisk breathes a sigh of relief that he is okay, and bites their lip. They put up their hands.

"Wait here," they say, casting back and forth in the air as they make aborted movements towards the doors. "Maybe there's... something with wheels..."

They realise they wouldn't be able to move anything to him, even if they found it, and they feel frustratingly useless. Their tail lashes once more, torn between going to get help and staying near him. They can't shake the feeling like he'll disappear if they're gone too long.

"Um. Nevermind. Maybe you can...?" They 'lie' on the floor in front of him (it takes effort not to sink into it; they don't want to get lost underground in that sense) and shift their own tail sinusoidally like a snake's to demonstrate, moving themselves forward a little. "I don't know if it'll work but... it's worth a try?"

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"Y-yeah! Let me try, I'll see if I can do that."

It's gotta be better than just flopping uselessly on the ground. They pay careful attention to how Frisk is doing it, trying not to focus too much on the weirdness of both of their situations.

"Okay, so just... wiggle like this?"

Their tail lashes back and forth, pressing into the ground in an effort to propel them forward. Asriel tries pulling himself forward with his arms too. The effort isn't exactly a failure, but Asriel roughly hits the ground with an "oof!"

"I think... I need a couple more tries to get the hang of it."

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Frisk winces in sympathy as he hits the ground, halfway through an automatic motion to catch him, having remembered nearly too late that he'd just go through them again.

(They're themselves alone for once, and their brother's here, and they can't even touch him.)

They give him a double thumbs up anyway. "You're doing good!" A thought occurs to them, a knuckle going to their mouth, and they float over him, watching his attempts and trying to give the occasional advice that may or may not be helpful. "D'you think you can fit in the fountain? Or... is there a place with more water?" They saw the lake underground while exploring, but they're pretty sure he wouldn't like it there.

He's going to get his fur wet. That's such an out-of-place thought it startles them a little, and they giggle.