"If not I have a camping bedroll."

"That's convenient."

Toriel leads Blai to a room.

The room has a collection of stuffed toys, a box of shoes which look unlikely to fit Blai, a wardrobe with clothes that also look unlikely to fit him, a bed which just might fit him, multiple lights, a large rug, a crude drawing of a flower, and various other things.

He will take the armor off and try lying down on it.

His feet don't quite bump into the bottom, if he scoots his head fairly close to the top.

"Workable. ...are those taxidermy?"

"No, just fabric. Sometimes children feel more comfortable if they can hold and play with toys like this."

"Some of the other guests were children?"

"All of them were… I think adults make better choices about which mountains to climb."

"Huh."

"There used to be a village above us… I've heard the human government made everyone leave."

"How long a timeline is involved?"

"Regarding monsters being sealed underground?"

"And sequelae, yes."

"It's 2115 by the underground calendar. Monsters were sealed a little before the founding of Home, which is when we put year 0. Sometime after 2000, the surface geology shifted to make it possible to fall through the barrier from… above where you showed up. The first human fell in 2015, and there was subsequent…"

Toriel sighs.

"I will discuss this if it is important to you, but it touches on my personal history significantly."

"It's only an idle curiosity."

"Thank you. In that case I will simply say that I expect the human government was behaving reasonably with the information they had."

Blai nods. "I appreciate your efforts to keep souls out of the King's hands."

"Thank you."

"What time is it here? I’ll wake up at dawn and should adjust my schedule to suit."

"It's around eleven o'clock, which is to say, eleven hours since midnight."

"Well then. If you are tired of chess for the day I have some books I can study."

"At some point I should go shopping and then distribute the spare snails… Did you bring any spare clothing?"

"No ma'am."

"We should probably fix that. How about you put on one of my spare robes and I measure your clothes?"