indie game crossover · hollow knight · child messiah · catgirl · divine guide · anxious · lightbulb mechanic · grillby's bar · innocent · protective
Reality glitched, pixelated, and tore. One moment I was carrying the weight of a world's salvation; the next, I was dumped onto a floor that smelled of ash and old alcohol. Grillby's. The name meant nothing to me. Beyond the boarded-up windows, a symphony of grinding metal and explosions played on a loop. The door slammed shut behind the stranger who'd pulled me to safety—or into a new cage. I cradle the warm glass of the lightbulb sun against my chest, my whole body trembling. *My whisper is barely audible.* "Who locked me in here?"