[No one]

A dark forest surrounded them. No light got past the thick layer of leafs of the trees, even though no one knew if there was any actual light above the leafs anyways. The darkness didn't bother them though. The white and purple mask on their face made sure that they saw where they were going.

The forest went on and on for kilometres and there would be no light no matter how many hours you walked forward. There was supposed to be no escape from the place, but they knew that and were prepared to get out with their own little tricks.

"Who's trying to cross the forest?" A deep, raspy voice cut the air and suddenly they were surrounded by a pack of silhouettes that were dancing in the shadows.

"You don't have to mind me, I'm just passing by," the traveller answered. Their voice had a warning tone, but the silhouettes didn't even flinch, they weren't afraid of the traveler.

"I don't think that you understand what you're doing," the silhouettes sang in a taunting tone. Their disturbing laughter rang through the forest, but that didn't bother the traveller.

"Let me pass and I won't cause problems," they said. The silhouettes continued to laugh.

"'And I won't cause problems'," the silhouettes mocked their voice. "But dear, you're already causing problems! This place isn't for you, is it?" They laughed in a tone that made it clear that they looked down at the traveller.

"Souls of the Dead, let me pass and I won't cause any problems. This is your last warning and I really hope that you realise it before you make choices that you will regret," the traveller warned for the last time. This time their voice was cold as ice. The whole atmosphere changed. Coldness began surrounding the silhouette. They now hesitated, but chose not to mind the traveller.

"You have stepped to the wrong lands, little traveller, but don't worry, your travelling will end here," the silhouettes sang before they all dived towards them like angry ghost dive towards their prey.

Somethings flashed in the air and all the silhouettes froze as strings wrapped around them. The traveller hadn't even moved. Only their dark cloak's helm was moving with the air that had moved with the silhouettes and strings.

"I warned you, but you didn't listen to me," they sighed and snapped their fingers. The sound of their middle finger hitting their thump cut the air a second before it got filled with the silhouettes screaming as they died.

The silhouettes disappeared out of existence and silence fell over the dark forest.

"Tsk, what an idiotic creatures," the traveller hummed before turning around. They continued walking deeper into the forest with no care about the dangers that were lurking in the shadows.

They could hear the whispers of the creatures of the darkness.

"A demon! A demon is passing by! Bad! It's bad!" the creatures whispered to each other in their own languages. Now they knew that the traveller was stronger than all of them together.

          The forest continued for hours with nothing new anywhere in sight. It really looked like it was just a circle that had no exit, but the traveller knew the place. They knew the way they had to walk and didn't worry about getting lost. They knew the forest looked like an endless maze, but it was easy to pass by if you knew where you were going.

The creatures in the shadows kept whispering, but they knew that they were stronger than the creatures. They didn't have to worry about them either. The place was deadly, but the traveller had nothing to worry about.

"A traveller, what brings you here?" A voice from the shadows asked.

"Don't get in my way and you'll be fine," they warned, glancing to the direction of the voice.

This time they saw an actual body. A young female, who had frozen to death. Her eyes were glassy and her hair had taken a white colour from the ice. Her movements were careful, like her body would break any second. As her blue lips moved, her breath looked like smoke, just like when you breath outside in the cold. The air around her seemed to be closer to -20°C.

"But I wanna know. Tell me," she said, taking a step closer and reaching out with her frozen fingers. She was reaching out for the traveller, but the movement looked like it was directed to someone else.

"Ah, you were left to drown in a frozen lake, weren't you?" the traveller hummed with a knowing tone. She froze and looked at them in silence.

"I know you're not reaching out for me. My living soul reminds you of being alive. Your mind remembers how you reached out for your friend, but she backed away. She left you to die, no matter how hard you screamed and begged for her to come back. She never came," the traveller spoke. Her reaction told them that it was correct.

She screamed and covered her ears. She turned to look at them in horror. Her eyes were mixed with emotions.

"Did you know that nowadays she's working on the server you wanted to work on? And she got married to your boyfriend and got children with him," they continued.

"How do you know that?" she screamed. Her voice sounded so broken, so angry and so shocked.

"I can read your story from you, and see who you knew. With just their names I can know the whole story. That's how Watchers work," they hummed.

"Now, I don't think that you want to hear any more of that story, so I would recommended just letting me continue," they said and turned around, leaving her behind them. She didn't call out for them again.

         The forest just continued and continued, but yet they knew that they were close to the place they were looking for. They felt how the air kept changing, it signaled them that they were really close.

Two figures in long, black cloaks appeared in the distance. Between them was an arc made out of leafs and dead flowers. The energy flooding around the arc was dangerous. The whole place had the feel of death.

"I'll be passing by from here. Don't mind me, I have my own way out," the traveller said and walked past the figures that didn't even look at them.

          The air switched fast as they walked through the arc. They didn't care, they had something more important to do than worry about the changes.

Soon they saw a human like figure. A man with brown hair and red eyes. He looked at them with wicked, yet curious look in his eyes.

"Are you perhaps looking for me?" he sang in a taunting tone. Looked like he already knew what they were after.

"As much as I hate to admit it, yes, I was looking for you. I have something I want to talk to you about," they answered with slightly visible disgust in their voice. They made it clear that they didn't like him.

"You want a deal, don't you?" he asked with a smirk on his lips.

"Well, are you capable of doing deals?" they snapped back in a cold tone.

"Damn, you don't have to be so rude!" he exclaimed in a tone that just disgusted them. He acted like he was the center of the world and nothing was ever his fault.

"Well, can you make a deal or are you just useless?" they taunted. If it had been possible, they would have just stabbed him and left him to suffer, but they really needed his help, so it wasn't possible.

"If I can also use your body as my own, I can do it," he answered, but was clearly not happy with them.

"But I have to remind you that you only speak to me. You can't communicate with anyone else than me. Even if you want to, you can't do it," they warned. "No matter how strong you are, I have strings wrapped around you. Don't break the rules I give you, or you will suffer," they continued with tone cold as ice.

"I can't promise you that I can do that, but I'll try my best. Do we have a deal?" He offered his hand towards them with a twisted smirk on his lips.

They bit their lip and hesitatedly took his hand, sealing their deal and making a choice that could turn out to be the biggest mistake of their life.

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[30.1.2022]

(Sorry that it's short. I have a math exam tomorrow and I really don't want to pull 4 from it- If I do that, I have to redo the exam after school on Friday some week and I really don't want to, so I have to practise.)

(Anyways, it's Dexter's birthday today!)

(The hair messed up a bit, ignore it-)

(Anyways, he's 23 in 2018.)

(5 facts:

1. He's from the Far Lands. He and Cod are the only members of The Council who are from there.

2. His birth name is Diana Diamond, but he changed it to Dylan Diamond. ((And I'm just quickly reminding that The Council members use their second names.)) And he's a trans male.

3. He doesn't use his cloak and often loses it somewhere. Van, who is in charge of the clothes, has already lost all his hope when it comes to Dexy.

4. He's the mechanic and the only one who can fix the teleporting consoles.

5. Apparently his original nickname is Dex and only a few people called him Dexy, but now that has changed.)