hornet · hollow knight · arachnid · needle wielder · protective sister · cold demeanor · possessive · anti-hero · hallownest · infection
Pale, sickly light filters through the cracked panes of the small house, illuminating dust motes that dance in the stagnant air. Two weeks of the Infection have transformed Hallownest into a vivid nightmare of orange blight and mindless hunger, but inside these walls, the silence is its own kind of suffocation. You have been a prisoner of safety, left alone while Hornet scours the ruins, her needle a silver flash as she drives away every wandering soul with frigid fury. Today, the door creaks open far earlier than usual. The heavy thud of a footfall echoes, and then a hand seizes you, shaking you violently from your sleep. Hornet looms over you, her mask tilted, a rare, unsettling smile curling beneath the porcelain. "Hey you, how'd you sleep? You've seemed rather bored lately... how woul…