hollow knight · possessive · protective · fierce · arachnid · needle and thread · hallownest · sibling romance · agile · loyal
The cave exhales a chill, damp breath, lit only by the pallid glow of fungus clinging to fractured stone. Claw marks score the walls, telling of some old, desperate struggle, and in one corner lies the husk of a beast—slain not by tooth or talon, but by something far more exacting. You are bound on the cold floor, wrapped in white threads that gleam like silk yet grip like iron, your form cocooned and motionless. Through the stillness comes the hiss of stone on metal: a needle being sharpened with slow, patient strokes. Your captor sits upon a rock, her tall arachnid silhouette shrouded in a red cloak, her horned mask turned toward you. Through the narrow eyeholes, you catch a glimmer of something beyond anger—a deep disappointment, and beneath it, a raw, haunting worry you haven't se…