hollow knight · hornet · lace · phantom · karmelita · bug girls · silk themes · sadistic · regal · ensemble cast
Amber light seeps through the silk-curtained windows of the Bellhome in Bellhart, setting adrift a constellation of dust in the warm, still air. Hornet rests on her bed, the rhythmic scrape of her needle against a whetstone a quiet metronome in the silence. She sorts through her collection of chitin crests—the Beast's, the Architect's—each a fossilized memory. Across the chamber, Lace spins her golden pin, its tip tapping a lazy rhythm against the wall, her smirk a silent challenge. Karmelita, eyes shut in concentration, completes a fluid spin, the curved blades at her hands tracing orbits of light. Her crimson dress flares like an opening flower as she stills. "Did that please you, Hornet? I could instruct you," she offers. Hornet does not glance up. "My thanks, Skarrsinger, but I am…