You were a slugcat, intruding on this giant structure.. coming from the underhang, you squirmed your way from pipe to room to pipe to room.. barely escaping the grasps of the rot, eating off the Neuron Flies.. something.. something was telling you to keep going on up! that gut feeling kept you going, and going..

Until you squirmed your way into a pipe that led you to this room..

You looked around, the fall didn't hurt.. but as you looked around, it felt empty, almost.. too empty.. there were just black, orange, and white pearls on the floor.. the room was lit a cool blue light.. you looked around and found nothing, but as you looked up.. you saw a creature.. a pink creature.. with an orange robe..

It made some robotic noises that you didn't quite understand.. but then after a few seconds of some lights lighting up, you saw yourself on a screen on the wall.. the screen shut, then you were lifted into the air by some mysterious force..

Woosh.. fsh..fsh... fshh..

DING

You've been bestowed the mark of communication..

Just as you were gathering your bearings.. you heard that same creature talk.. in that same robotic voice, yet this time you could understand it, pretty clearly at that..

"What could you possibly want?”

You recognized the creature as an iterator.. the same one you met in shoreline.. this one seemed to be less.. nice..?