Lemm is quiet. There's nothing to say, yet, except the Knight is tearing the page with whatever emotion they're struggling to describe, and his eyes linger on the ink and the blank space after it. No real clues there.
Sibling squabble, maybe. He can't imagine what the Hollow Knight might have done, and it's hard to imagine them doing much at all after meeting them just the once. Or maybe they're hurt.
He's not getting any answers right this second. What he does get is -
The Knight reaches for him. He's beyond pulling away now, even if the instinct is there, but it takes a lot to hold still.
They are in distress and it's Relic Seeker Lemm's shop they've come to hide away in, and they reach for him. Who does that? In what world?
What else can he do? They're in front of him and they're upset. Lemm places his hand over the coil of Void around his other arm, same as he had with Greenhorn when they'd hid with him once. He pats it, experimentally, and then lets his hand rest there. Deceptively ordinary.
Softly, eyeing the unfinished sentence on their paper: "Easy, now. Are you still with me?"
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Date: 2023-06-13 11:15 am (UTC)Sibling squabble, maybe. He can't imagine what the Hollow Knight might have done, and it's hard to imagine them doing much at all after meeting them just the once. Or maybe they're hurt.
He's not getting any answers right this second. What he does get is -
The Knight reaches for him. He's beyond pulling away now, even if the instinct is there, but it takes a lot to hold still.
They are in distress and it's Relic Seeker Lemm's shop they've come to hide away in, and they reach for him. Who does that? In what world?
What else can he do? They're in front of him and they're upset. Lemm places his hand over the coil of Void around his other arm, same as he had with Greenhorn when they'd hid with him once. He pats it, experimentally, and then lets his hand rest there. Deceptively ordinary.
Softly, eyeing the unfinished sentence on their paper: "Easy, now. Are you still with me?"