Lapo was lonely. Lapo hated loneliness. Lapo sensed nothing, saw nothing, felt nothing but its own emmotions. Lapo was sad. Lapo missed its home, where its family played in all the elemental realms and had fun together.
It all started after the stupid dog-masked dungeon theeves interrupted its manifestation and bled it dry of energy and threw it back into the wild to continue manifesting.
And now it was blind, sad and angry, a little gem that could only show its sadness by glowing. It could not call for help, whether from spirits or humans. It was a dungeon core, but it couldn't sense its dungeon!
Where were the stories of spirits becoming cores of great dungeons in the cosmos? It could not wheep with human tears nor wail with a human voice; it was trapped with its thoughts, a miserable creature that could only sense the energy of living beings... living beings? Was that... salvation! Pain covered Lapo's mind.
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Where was the way again?, Pawline asked herself. She didn't know how she knew, but she knew that she was Pawline, and she was a her. She was smart, and she told that big slow human child that cats were the smartest over and over again, but he didn't listen! No, he went to the human healers over and over and over again, wanting to stop evil dreams. Evil dreams! He dared to call dreams about her evil!
She snorted and went back to the matter at paw, a very pur-plexing matter indeed. Why was the world so stupid today, making her lost and changing her place? She knew the way to go from the humans' pack of homes to her hunting grounds, which were sometimes even in the pack of homes, as she joyfully hunted the rats inside human homes and received her tythe from the human servents. But other times she would hunt birds and things outside the pack of homes.
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But the place she saw was very different from the place she remembered. It was under ground. Why did the world act stupidly like that, moving her under ground? It wasn't her fault that she chaced a rat into a weird energy-imbued rock thing, ignoring her senses and falling into a teleportation formation! Not only that, but the rat didn't even have the decency to be there in the unfamiliar place, trapped with her as a consolation prise for falling into this mess. And now she was trying to find her way back home, her tail between her legs from the failure to catch anything today, and her weird situation.
She chose another direction, heading right. Wasn't it called right because it was the right way to go? Pawline would learn the truth of that soon enough. She passed through tunnels and caverns, but had yet to find an exit. She did see a weird blue thing that looked fun, so she momentarily forgot about her quest and ran toward it. It led to another cave place. Pawline hissed in frustration. This was dog work, it should have been obvious that those overgrown servents of humans were behind this; they were bad creatures to cats! They would bark and holler like a drunken smelly human, scaring away innocent cats. Only cats had the right to fight other cats; dogs didn't belong in the cat world!
Well, at least the place beyond the weird blue thing was simple and straightforward, so Pawline padded down the only way there was to go. She walked, and walked, and walked. Those dogs would pay! The world would be scoured cleen of them, and cats would have all the rats and human servents with their divinely-gifted treatmaking skills for themselves!
Light, there was light ahead! Pawline hurried toward it, and saw a little pointy glowing thingy, one of the favorite games for cats to play with the humans! She ran toward it and... she stepped on something.
Pawline's mind raced backward, remembering the rock thing that had teleported her here in the first place! Now she stepped on another rock just because it looked prettier and glowier than that last one! Ugh, she was stupid, stupid! Cat kings and queens would not approve of her uncatliness! But it was too late now, as she had already stepped on the blue glowy pretty could be dangerous rock... and it hurt, it hurt so much! Definitely dangerous!
Ding! Integrating unique dungeon core of species Corvivum Caecum with unique specimon of Felis Monstrum.