Their arm retracts to hide beneath their cloak, which is too short to obscure its light trembling. It was few words, but their fine motor skills are disused and fighting against the rules of their existence is exhausting.

They follow his hand with minute shifts of their head, to be watching something that isn't his face as he speaks.

This speaking of gears is...odd, but they can just grasp the meaning. That they had stretched what happened out longer than She wanted in her blaze of fury, that they had failed in keeping Hallownest from its terrible fall.

The Relic Seeker is not asking a question. The Hollow Knight, therefore, does not answer.