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boxfullofzeroesMEMORIAL TO THE
HOLLOW KNIGHT
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In the Black Vault far above.
Through its sacrifice Hallownest lasts eternal.
HOLLOW KNIGHT
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In the Black Vault far above.
Through its sacrifice Hallownest lasts eternal.
There's a figure at the base of the fountain, bent double, yet still taller than most bugs that once wandered these streets.
The Hollow Knight was sealed before it was raised in the center of the City. In all their glimpses of the world through Infected eyes, they had never seen this--this figure of themselves, towering high above the Dreamers that protected them, sacrificed everything for them, only differentiated by the carving of each mask.
This should not matter.
The emotion that is their flaw screams it does. Why--?
--This figure of them should not have ever been here. The Pale King prioritized their image above the living. A memorial to a thing. A memorial to a failure, still standing tall, lie inscribed for the straggling remains to see.
They should not wonder why. They should not feel the wound in their chest throbbing with new pain. Do not think, do not feel, do not do not do not--
Gendered Child, sister, told them they may go, and they have gone.
And they are here, beneath the shadow of a false Purity, beneath pounding rain in an empty City.
Nothing about this spurs them to move. Their mask presses flat against fountain's base, hard enough to ache.
They empty their mind, and wait.
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Date: 2020-08-29 04:01 pm (UTC)"Pah. Of course not. You probably know this city better than I do." He makes a mild shooing motion with his hand. "Go on, then. I'm going home."
Without much ceremony and forgetting a proper goodbye, Lemm turns to head back the way they came. The fact he took a walk with the Hollow Knight notwithstanding, everything else about this situation is just reminding him why he moved into the city in the first place. He's made a royal mess of this interaction. This would be embarrassing enough if it were anyone else, but it had to be them!
Lemm is, privately, in a fairly bad mood.