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“I thought this was Celestria, the Realm of Spirits,” said Nikki.
“Oh, but it is,” Wishbone told her. “Wormbelow is just our
nickname for it. Almost everyone who dwells here calls it that.
But its proper name is Celestria.”
“Why do you call it Wormbelow?” Jack asked.
Nikki rolled her eyes at him. “Duh, Jack! What lives below the
ground?”
Jack frowned thoughtfully and scratched his head. Then his
eyes went wide. “Worms,” he said, smiling. “Worms live below
the ground.”
“Took you long enough,” said Nikki.
“Wormbelow is a more fitting name,” W ishbone cackled. “The
bodies of everyone lay below ground, but their ghosts flow
above freely as celestial beings. I think that’s where the name,
Celestria, came from.”
“This place is totally awesome,” said Jack. He pulled out his
phone. “I’ve got to take some pictures.” He took a picture but
when he tried to post it he couldn’t. He mumbled, “What’s
going on? I don’t have a single bar. Check yours, Nikki.”
Nikki took her phone out of her pocket, stared at the screen and
said with a disappointed look on her face, “Me neither. Not a
single one. There’s no reception here.”
“Hey, look!” Jack showed Nikki his phone. “I took the picture
but now it’s just a blur. What’s going on?”
Wishbone chuckled, “This is Creepy Hollow. We don’t have
such things as Wi-Fi, cellular towers, or the internet here. And
you can’t take pictures, either. This is a secret place. Nobody in
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