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Ghost had woken up in strange places before, so much so that calling them strange seemed somewhat pointless. They stood up and brushed themself off deciding to look around, it was not the worst place they'd seen, a bit cold and bland but still far nicer that the wastes they were so used to. Seeing a door (an uncommon thing to see) they ran up to it quickly breaking it down with their nail resulting in a well made corridor and another door, this made Ghost rather excited as they ran over and broke down the next two doors.
After the three doors where broken they see a small creature, it is rather cute and small, walking back and forth, occasionally walking into the wall and turning around. It has small spikes on its back so Ghost doesn't touch it (even though they really want to) as that looked like it would hurt.
Continuing down the hall seeing some more of the creatures, some glowy things and dodging a very fast falling spike, Ghost sees a large blank tablet, touching the surface it glows with soul revealing text in a language that Ghost had never seen before. Ghost surprising even themselves can read the text anyway, it reads:
"Higher beings, these words are for you and you alone.
Your great strength marks you amongst us. Focus your soul and you shall achieve feats of which other may only dream."
Ghost knew of soul, it was a glowy substance that comes from alive things, they can use it too heal which was very useful. Although the text was a strange thing to see, Ghost did not have enough of an attention span to think about it any longer so they continue onwards to the next chamber. Coming across yet another creature (this one being much less cute) they decide to kill it. It drops some.. shiny rocks? Ghost being Ghost, picks up all of said shiny rocks and stashes them away into their pockets.
They keep moving upwards killing another flying thing and very closely avoiding more falling spikes, they see another cute bug and jump over it (not even noticing the blue glowing cocoon). Ghost breaks through another door seeing a large door and another tablet just along the corridor, they try to approach just for the floor to collapse and to fall down a hole... picking themselves back up they make their way across a floor of spikes avoiding a few falling ones too, Ghost continues upwards.
Breaking through a small barrier Ghost sees that they have made it to the other side of the hole they fell down and approaches the tablet, the now familiar glow of soul spreading across the surface, it reads:
"Higher beings, these words are for you and you alone.
Beyond this point you enter the land of King and Creator.
Step across this threshold and obey our laws."
"Bear witness to the last and only civilisation, the eternal Kingdom.
Hallownest"
The eternal Kingdom? Hallownest? These words seemed familiar to Ghost but they did not know why.. What did intrigue Ghost was the first line, it repeated from the last tablet "Higher beings, these words are for you and you alone." was Ghost a higher being? Was that why they could read the tablets? They did not know.. they thought about this as they break down the large door and walks through.
Seeing a small village ahead they leap down into Hallownest, not knowing how much this kingdom would change their life...