Dark Shadow was happy.
He learned that the person he enjoyed having around was alive. He somehow communicated with the person with the big stick or staff as mister Sinhunter had told him to call it.
But it seemed like he couldn't get back to them for some time, and they would meet him at another room they trained in last time. But, of course, to reach that destination, they had to go through many places or floors, as the rest called them, but he now had a goal to go through them.
He also wanted to get stronger and improve to impress that person the next time they meet again. So he worked on something that could make it happen.
He couldn't speak to anyone other than mister Sinhunter, but he could understand them as long as they didn't use complicated words. His problem was he couldn't produce the same variety of sounds as the rest, so that he couldn't speak back.
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