[ The Knight nods in immediate response to that first bit.
want to be heard, they scratch into the sand.
As for why, that answer takes a little longer. Because they were curious, perhaps. Or because they were seeking a challenge. Or simply because they stumbled into it, on accident, and kept doing so, because Hallownest is filled with the dead and their dreams. None of those things are strictly wrong.
But the answer that is closest to them, the most honest, is...
wanted to listen
must be lonely
with nobody there for so long
without help = do the same things over and over
hurt forever
sick forever
It comes back to loneliness, something that the Knight themselves feels keenly. Being trapped in an endless pattern, unable to be free. Like their broken siblings, like the Nailsmith endlessly forging, like Sly and Bretta trapped in their own memories. Even the living were not immune to it. ]
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want to be heard, they scratch into the sand.
As for why, that answer takes a little longer. Because they were curious, perhaps. Or because they were seeking a challenge. Or simply because they stumbled into it, on accident, and kept doing so, because Hallownest is filled with the dead and their dreams. None of those things are strictly wrong.
But the answer that is closest to them, the most honest, is...
wanted to listen
must be lonely
with nobody there for so long
without help = do the same things over and over
hurt forever
sick forever
It comes back to loneliness, something that the Knight themselves feels keenly. Being trapped in an endless pattern, unable to be free. Like their broken siblings, like the Nailsmith endlessly forging, like Sly and Bretta trapped in their own memories. Even the living were not immune to it. ]