I awake suddenly. I find I am unclothed, my body naked, my breasts and womanhood covered by a thin blanket.

Taking it off, I stand and look around. I see I'm in the Hunters Dream, but, it looks, different. Cleaner. And the feeling of the dream is, less oppressive.

The cool air rushes over my breasts, and I shiver ever so slightly. I look around, and see the hunters garb laid out nearby over a chair. Grabbing it, I start dressing.

Quickly, I finish, and look around more for my equipment. My hunters Pistol, Saw Cleaver, and Ludwigs holy blade. I couldn't find them in the immediate area, so I move to go outside.

In doing so, I see that the Hunters Dream really has changed some. Its clouds no longer feel as oppressive, and the slight mist that permeates the air is no longer as clingy. As I walk out the front of the Hunters Workshop, I see the Doll.

She is kneeling in front of a head stone, one that wasnt present before my fight with my former mentor, and the Moon Presence. As I approached, she stood, and looked to me.

"Ah, Salinor, you have awoken. It is good to see you." I bow to her, and she does the same, before I say.

"Yes, I have. Do you know what has happened to the Dream? It feels different, more peaceful, and less weighty. Also, do you know what has happened to my equipment? I could not find it when I was getting dressed." The Doll nods.

"Yes, oh Great One. They are in your storage. And the dream has changed. The moon is no longer in control. Can you not feel how it calls to you?" She says, smiling gently to me. I am confused.

"No, Doll. I do not feel the dream calling to me. I just feel it has changed." Doll just nods politely.

"I understand, young one. You will need time to learn. However, we do not have much time, for events are happening, and you have new beasts to hunt." I am again confused.

"Doll, what do you mean? I stopped the scourge, did I not?" Doll nod, and smiles again gently.

"Yes, Salinor, you did. But in this new world, a different type of beast walks the streets. They plunder, rape, and destroy. You, will need to break them, and save the ponies that they have conquered." I am confused still.

"Ponies? Where are we going, that I must save ponies?" Doll takes my hand, and guides me to the first headstone, the Yharnam headstone. I see now it is the only headstone active. The messengers are coming out the ground near the headstone, looking around with no eyes, and pawing at the ground and air.

"It is a land called Equestria. And they have been enslaved. As I said, the beasts that enslaved them are the Caribou. They use them as slaves, as objects. The mares are raped, fillies and colts. The stallions, castrated and left to die. The Caribou have become nothing more than a shadow of their former selves, and are nothing more than beasts. Know, good hunter, that these enemies will be more difficult than some of those in Yharnam. They act more like stray hunters, than Yharnamites." I nod, now understanding what is happening. I am to do my job, and protect the ponies.

"When do I leave?" I ask Doll. When did it suddenly become like this, where I take my assignment from her. I have always loved her, for her kindness towards me, and her help during my quest. The small hair ornament I gave her, was for that specific reason.

"You may leave when ready, oh good Hunter. May you find your worth in the waking world." I nod, and bow to her. She bows back, and I head into the Hunters Workshop.

Moving to my storage, I gather my equipment. My fully upgraded Holy Blade and Saw Cleaver. I move out, and head towards the store, having found an old badge in my pocket. Looking at what the messengers had for me, it seems that I could buy some new items with soul echoes. I found I could buy Ghermans Burial Blade, his scythe, and his Blunderbus. I couldnt do so at the moment, for I had no echoes, but I would be changing that soon.

Heading back out the workshop fully equipped, I am ready to go. I head to the stone, and thr Doll is where she usually stands, at the bottom of the steps, to the right of them as you go down. She stands beside a triangular section of wall terraced down and no taller than my knee.

I bow to her one more time, and she does the same, before I turn around, and kneel beside the headstone. Putting my hand out towards the messengers, I see in my minds eye the name of the location I will awaken in.

Castle of the Two Sisters.

Author's Note

Chapter two. Now, I am going off game lore here, but it will not be Eldritch all the time. Also, Salinor is her name, and she will learn more about what the Doll said during her journey.