Friendly reminder none of the cringy stuff is canon, I just love shadowsalt, please be nice about it 😭

I'm considering writing a shadowsalt fic where Silent Salt really does become evil and is secretly loyal to Shadow Milk like how PV is loyal to White Lilly.

Roasted Salt arrives at the land of silence where he stands on dark soil amidst a field of gravestones, all trees are dead with no leaf in sights, evidence of a raging battle left behind on the ground, crowds screech high above the sky as if it was telling him to leave, but he knows he won't.
Roasted Salt cookie walks along to the path to a castle ahead, seeing how many gravestones there arez yet some seemed well preserved... and yet he can hear the wallowing of souls who had passed on far too soon for their time, despite that it seems like the spirits dare not approach him at all, he can only assume why. Each step he takes feels like he's walking on endless upon endless crumbs of crumbled cookies, his horse Nox black salt seems to stop treading as it sense another cookie is nearby, Roasted Salt cookie looks around yet does not see any signs of another cookie until he hears the voice.

???: and why might ye be here on this gloomy day...? Heh.

Roasted Salt turns around and he sees a beared cookie dressed in black, carrying a lantern walk towards him, the cookie does not seem hostile... Yet something about him seems off.

Roasted Salt: I could ask you the same...
???: hm... Not a talker are ya? That's understandable... No cookie here really is the chatter box type... Heh.
Roasted Salt: who are you? Are you a follower of Silent Salt cookie?
???: hmm... Hard to say.... I looked up to him... Once, ah but that was a thing of the past... To answer your question the names Charcoal Cookie...keeper of spirits... I was just taking a stroll through the fields until the spirits started acting up... And now I see why.
Roasted Salt: because i...
Charcoal: you don't just bare resemblance to him... You are him aren't cha? Something like... Reincarnation...?
Roasted Salt: indeed... I don't hold any memories of the past... But I suspected as much that my presence cause a disturbance to the spirits... Those who have been slained by Silent Salt cookie himself...
Charcoal: so then... Why did ya return here huh? Looking for something...?
Roasted Salt: a dark power haunts this land, her majesty deduced that it's Silent Salt cookies remnant, a fraction of his power left behind... Meant to teach me something... Of the past... Of my wrong doings... I have swore to use my sword only to protect the weak... If it's judgement that he wants... Then I shall gladly stand upon the scales and face my judgement...
Charcoal: ye certainly talk like him that's for sure... But if I were to geuss, that remnant your looking for is within the castle... Recently the spirits have been fleeing from there... They won't let me enter either... Something wants it to block me out... I can only assume that means it only wants one cookie in there...
Roasted Salt: then I must go... Only in facing the truth, can I stop this dark power from harming others...
Charcoal: ... I won't stop ya... There should be a cookie inside the castle that could help ye out better then me anyways... I'm sure she be thrilled to see you, you'll know her once she shows herself.
Roasted Salt: very well... I'll be on my way.

Roasted Salt cookie walks straight towards the Catacombs of Silence and observes his surroundings, the structure itself is ruined, pieces of the castle has broken down, cracks and holes in the walls, blade marks left on the wall, recording what could've happened in this very hallway in the past, dimly lit light was the only source guiding Roasted Salt forward, true to its name, the place is silent, he couldn't even hear the howling of the spirits from in here yet he continues walking around the castle until he sees it, a entrance in the wall, it seemed to be blocked by something once but was destroyed by using magic... Flower magic to be precise, as Roasted Salt cookie sees some traces of white lillies around the door, seemingly wilted with time, for these Lillies cannot be found anywhere else outside in the land of silence, so it's odd to find them here of all places.
Roasted Salt walks into the entrance within the wall, walking down a path of stairs cases until he arrives at what seems like a shelter or resting place possibly for past knights who used to serve here, fragments of armoury left on the ground, becoming dust and crumbling away, there was clear sign that cookies once walked here but now... Before Roasted Salt could even know it, a heavy sound of clank appeared Infront of him, a cookie in heavy armour of white walks forward with a stoic almost dead expression.

???: halt. Do not go any further.
Roasted Salt: you... Are you the cookie that Charcoal Cookie spoke of...?
???: Charcoal Cookie? ... Did he send you here...? Hmm... No, he wouldn't be the type to do that... But you... I seen you... I know you.
Roasted Salt: ...
???: I see... So you have been reborned commander...
Roasted Salt: I am not him, despite my queens words... I hope it is a good thing...
???: ... Our commander was once a kind hearted cookie who protected the weak with all he is... It was the position and identity that was thrust upon him... The cruelty of this world... That caused him to fell... Make no mistakes, he is no Saint... But he never wanted to be the villain either... None of them did...
Roasted Salt: I see... I came here because there's been strange activities happening here in the land of silence, I need to get to the source of it.
???: I see, years ago you did foretold what the fallen fount has predicted to the beast and it would seem that he was right... Because here you stand right Infront of me... After dying 1650 years ago... That's why you left the truth behind for yourself to find, to understand what and why you have fallen and what you must do if the others regain their identity as the past beast, with this in mind... I believe you shall stand trial against your own power.
Roasted Salt: that I have no problem with, I understand that I must take responsibility for my past life actions and I'm willing to do it if it means keeping innocent lives safe.
???: kind hearted as always commander... That's what made you the perfect leader... Albeit not one who can bare to shoulder all burden and pain with such a fragile heart.... Please follow me, I shall guide you to the source.
Roasted Salt: very well... If I may ask, what is your name?
???: Salt Cellar cookie, I have been guarding these ruins ever sience Silent Salt cookie left... And I waited for you, if a cookie truly can be reborn... Then I shall stand and wait for you once more even if it takes centuries... But that is irrelevant now... I would also like to know your current name.
Roasted Salt: ... I am Roasted Salt cookie.