"SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-"

Dream gaped as a hyperactive Tommy and Tubbo ran circles around the kitchen. Bad had insisted they stay for a while to get geared up (though Skeppy told Dream it was only so he could try more of Drista's muffins). And so the two kids had overdosed on sugar.

Pure, white sugar. Kilograms of it.

Dream made a note to hide the coffee grounds.

"Phiiiill! I'm tiiiiiiired!"

"You're never tired."

"Yeah I tricked you! Hah!"

Phil yelped as Tommy jumped on him. Dream sighed. This was the worst.

Timeskip: two weeks later

"Come on!"

They had been searching for the Entity's base for what seemed like a month, katana in hand. A new discovery- an abandoned manor - yielded only zombies and a surprised vindicator. There wasn't even any loot.

Everyone was getting a bit desperate.

"Wait. What's this?"

Tommy had bent over the ground at something. Dream walked over and saw a small, translucent shard in the ground, about as big as a large book. It looked a lot like stained glass, but something was off.

"Aha! This is one of the Entity's crystals!"

"a whatsit?"

"Oh yeah. The Moon Lord can summon crystals and throw them like daggers in battle. He's probably been roving around killing everything in sight and he passes by here."

"Killing everything in sight. Like typical movie villain?"

"Well, yeah."

Dream looked up and saw a few more crystals, scattered around embedded in trees or half-buried in the ground.

"I think we know where to go."

So, yeah. This is also a relatively short filler. Because of the late update tho, here's a random lore tidbit!

Somewhere. A dark cavern. A cold wind blows, and trees rustle. A shard of light illuminates the cavern floor.

There is a glint of darkest purple crystal. Then silence.

Something growls.

Somewhere else. A desert wasteland. It shows a timelapse. The sun rises and sets...rises and sets...Until something shifts. The sand starts to trickle down into a hidden place. A stone hand reaches out of the abyss.

The cavern again. There is a cave-in, and light showers in, illuminating the floor.

There is nothing there except a footprint.