Hive defender hollow knight5/18/2023 It was the home to thousands of scholars a year. It offered all matters of studies that were far more accessible to the citizens of Hallownest than regular treks into the watery canyon to visit the Archives would have been. The University was a fixture to the Capital City that had nearly matched the Watcher’s Tower in prestige. Focused enough to say his words with care when panic and suspicion lifted like a chorus against him. I wish to stay,” she declared in the voice of a child and the tone of an adult.īut he would need to prepare for more representatives at this table and Herrah could direct her own to their places. How long until she grew to his own height? She might do so within the care of the Hive, away from either of her blood parents.īut Herrah would not be sleeping and she was so loyal to her sibling in this palace. She still had to turn her head back to look at him. Hornet stepped beyond her mother’s shadow. “I am not going to make her leave and you will not make such a suggestion,” the Beast stated. But if the child wished to see at an early age why they were best avoided, then what did it matter? He would not join these meetings if it was not for the fact that they centered around him. “And if she has decided she is ready to see the aggravation that is politicking, then she is.” “She told me that she was coming, not asked,” Herrah said. Was that not calm enough? Not obliging? Did he not avoid provoking? Dismissing sovereignty? She could find grievances in whatever he did. “Then we shall invite you both to stay for a meal and she may go out into the palace now until such a time comes.” The plague left far more willing to put hope in his cure and, in that, made allies of many who had long been more inclined to skirmish with one another. He was really not prepared for this meeting today. Who had excelled elsewhere, away from the both of them- taken her name from a home they had no control over- ( what could they expect? Her mother was to sleep forever away from her and her sire could give her the world was weak and had sent two enemies after Hallownest- ) The child who could more than hear the rest of them. Did its tides let it seep into the stones of his palace?) (There was an ocean of darkness below them now. He’d made more of those for himself than he’d really noticed since establishing his nest here, hadn’t he? It was difficult to shake, when the word for many more years before that had been enemy. ![]() They were called that now through shared blood. There was a silent weaver and two of Herrah’s devout guards, but he forgot their presence entirely and had spoken before taking in the rest of the entourage from his…ally kingdom. In comparison to that, what was taking a stag to the nearby basin on her own whim? He recalled her intruding into the black egg. The independence felt abrupt in the intensity that it had come with. ![]() And she wrote letters to let the palace know of her arrival, even if she slipped away from her Deepnest retainers and avoided those in the pale residence. She had come to the palace with and without her guardians. It was better that such could not lay heavy in the room. The stains of regret cloyed thick in the air, but such was not visible in a shared space.Ĭertainly, the Beast would have a share of her own. Yet the shadows that crept down the seams of the brick retreated back into nothingness upon their entry. (They were not the kind to dream until their very queen had, so recently- however brief.) Theirs were catacombs, meant to wind and twist and leave most trapped in the jaws of such lightless dead ends. They’d not dreamed, not even when dream mastered this place. ![]() They hid under the roots of Pale gardens. ![]() They embraced dark passageways and shied from all the lights who came to offer themselves. There was an irony in how it lightened when the party from Deepnest arrived early. He ought to never find a tunnel dim when he entered it. Especially when it seemed so dark, as he alone sat in the chamber. He’d hardly needed to come so early, though. It was customary for the king to be upon his seat already when the first dignitary arrived. The Pale King waited in the meeting hall from the earliest hours of the day of the conference. Stats: Published: Updated: Words: 85033 Chapters: 20/? Comments: 343 Kudos: 613 Bookmarks: 119 Hits: 15364
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