[center][h1][color=darkgreen]Linkle[/color][/h1][/center]
[center][h3][color=red]Merge Rate: 33%[/color][/h3][/center]

[center]Word Count: 504 [/center]

[center][color=darkgreen]Level 10[/color] - (19/100) + 1[/center] 


[center]Location: Frozen Highlands ~ Snowdin - Treat's Doll House[/center]

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The skullgirl and the wolf marched out the front door, Treat having wrapped herself in her new shawl to keep out the cold. Both of them carried old fashioned oil lanterns Treat had taken the time to scrounged up, light flickering behind the glass yet hard to see in the afternoon light. Linkle hopped down the stairs into the snowy yard, speaking energetically. "Poe's are pretty easy as far as monsters go. They shoot fire out lamps like this, but they're so slow to recover. Bait that out and you can give them some of this!" She went for her crossbow, only to feel her hand grasp empty air. Right, she had left her crossbows down on the sled. Instead she let lose with a high kick, knocking a flurry of snow into the air. "Some of that! Hehe!" 

"Do you fight a lot of ghosts?" Treat asked, having managed to restrain herself from flinching.

"Heroes fight all kinds of monsters." She replied, lower her leg and following Treat led her around to the side of the mansion. "They're mid level, usually mixed in with a bunch of Stalchildren or Bokoblins."

"Children?" Treat asked, taken aback. 

"No, no, that's just what they're called. They're more like small skeletons." Linkle amended. Treat still looked like she thought that was kind of dark. "They're not people skeletons. They have giant faces and teeth like bricks. I don't know where they come from, I've never seen anything in Hyrule that looks like they do. And there are sooooo many. Like, thousands. My point is, there’s no reason to worry. This is like one of two things I’m really good at."

[center][color=red]If it is a ghost you have no need to fight it. Give it an order and it will obey.[/color][/center]

They came around the side of the house to find appeared to be a poorly attached wooden shed, it’s design clearly clashing with the manor itself. Treat had explained that, though the elevator inside the house didn’t work, she had found an alternate entrance to the basement where she had poked around the shed in search of anything useful. Inside there wasn’t much to see. [url=https://lparchive.org/Shadow-Hearts-(by-The-Dark-Id)/Update%2068/48-dollhouse_(49).jpg]It looked like simple storage, tool’s piled on shelves, some shovels and picks hanging from a rack across the room, and a couple of chairs stacked up beside them.[/url] The most interesting thing was the green machine that sat beside them that looked sort of like the engine of a kart, but far larger. Maybe this gave power to the house? 

She was called away from it by Treat and pointed instead toward a square hole built into the floor in the corner. [url=https://lparchive.org/Shadow-Hearts-(by-The-Dark-Id)/Update%2068/49-dollhouse_(50).jpg]Linkle came over, their twin lights revealing a ladder built into one side of the hole, leading down into the inky darkness.[/url] “I almost fell down here the first time.” Treat said, embarrassed.

“Super dangerous.” Linkle said, shaking her head. Then she took the handle of the lantern in her teeth and slid down onto the ladder to descend.