As Sherbet was trudging through the forest, she thought. She thought about her ice abilities, her parents, that school she was told about, and why she had no friends. Out of nowhere, she bumped into a rock. That rock turned about to be a looming tower of stone.

"What the...?"

The tower had strange markings and inscriptions and was cracked, eroded from weather, and covered in moss. There were also faces of strange looking dragons carved into the tower. Sherbet ran her talons along the rock, admiring the artwork, when she heard a loud rumbling. Surprised, she stepped back.

Suddenly, one of the stone dragons breathed a large column of blue flames right where she had been standing just moments earlier. The ground burned away to reveal what looked like a trapdoor made of stone. It had similar inscriptions and designs as the tower but it was less worn out, although it was very dusty and dirty. The trapdoor slowly creaked open to reveal a long dark passageway with lots of stairs leading into the ground.

Sherbet was incredibly confused and it was getting late, so she started looking for a place to sleep. She gathered some soft leaves and bunched them up under a bush. She crawled into her makeshift bed and fell asleep almost instantly.

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Sherbet woke up at the crack of dawn. She decided that today would be a good day to explore the dark passageway in the stone tower. She looked at her pamphlet for the SED. Sherbet still had a week before the school year started, and she had a small idea about where to find the school, so she figured she could find time to explore the passage.

Sherbet went back to the tower. The trapdoor has remained open all night. Sherbet tried looking into the passageway before entering but all she saw was blackness. She called down asking if anyone was there, but was answered only by her echo. Sherbet took a deep breath and started walking down the stairway into the ground.