Just like with the little ghost that creeps into his shop now and again, Lemm is not deterred by silence. When they turn, that tells Lemm three things: one, that this bug (bug?) is responsive and has certainly heard him, and two, that they are probably not infected. Three...
Three, they are almost identical to that statue.
All of this only emboldens him, but none more than the third. One might think Lemm of all bugs would understand when someone needed time alone, but unfortunately for Hollow, Relic Seeker Lemm has far more questions than social awareness.
"I'd know if I'd seen you in the City before," he says, somewhat ironically, "but since I haven't, I'll tell you to mind yourself. There's a myriad of stuck doors and open sewers, and I won't be rescuing anybody."
He steps forwards, closes the distance, and comes to a halt beside the stranger with a comfortable space between them. He peers at Hollow for a moment, eager to note the differences between this face and the carved stone above them, and then turns his attention back up to the statues.
Lemm stands in peacable silence for a short while. But only a short while.
"You've a stunning likeness to the Knight up there," he prompts hopefully. Hint, hint. "I'm the leading historian on Hallownest. If you know anything about this memorial, the information is better off with me."
There are dots to be connected here, but a good Relic Seeker never assumes, and it's never safe to think correlation is the same thing as fact. Maybe this stranger knows nothing, and their likeness is just a coincidence. (He doubts that very much.)
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Three, they are almost identical to that statue.
All of this only emboldens him, but none more than the third. One might think Lemm of all bugs would understand when someone needed time alone, but unfortunately for Hollow, Relic Seeker Lemm has far more questions than social awareness.
"I'd know if I'd seen you in the City before," he says, somewhat ironically, "but since I haven't, I'll tell you to mind yourself. There's a myriad of stuck doors and open sewers, and I won't be rescuing anybody."
He steps forwards, closes the distance, and comes to a halt beside the stranger with a comfortable space between them. He peers at Hollow for a moment, eager to note the differences between this face and the carved stone above them, and then turns his attention back up to the statues.
Lemm stands in peacable silence for a short while. But only a short while.
"You've a stunning likeness to the Knight up there," he prompts hopefully. Hint, hint. "I'm the leading historian on Hallownest. If you know anything about this memorial, the information is better off with me."
There are dots to be connected here, but a good Relic Seeker never assumes, and it's never safe to think correlation is the same thing as fact. Maybe this stranger knows nothing, and their likeness is just a coincidence. (He doubts that very much.)