A Familiar Void

Chapter 33

A twitch suddenly went through Bug when they saw the form of their Master being lifted off the ground. A black void tendril had pierced her, and lifted her away from them. The appendage was keeping her in the air, not unlike what it had done to the soldiers before.

It had happened in such a short amount of time, too fast for Louise to react. To her, it might've happened in an instant. Bug thought that the Hollow Knight was planning to fire another one of those light daggers, but instead one of its arms had extended into a deadly void tendril.

Which was odd, considering that the last time that it had seen the larger Sibling, they were missing one arm.

Then just as she was lifted off the ground, the tendril snapped to one side and it saw Louise's body flung through the air.

The twitch went through its body again, this time it could feel it in its mask. Another one appeared when they saw their Master hit the wall with a painful sounding 'Thud'.

"LOUISE!"

It heard Kirche scream out. It saw both her and Montmorency run towards their downed Master.

Bug wanted to do so as well, some part of them wanted to run towards Louise. But they couldn't...

It was halted on the spot, just simply staring at the unmoving body of its Master.

Sib could move, they were just slowly walking towards their Master with their Nail sheathed. Wales was just as rooted on the spot as them, simply staring at her from his spot on the ground. The masked stranger, the one that had showed up and almost got killed, was also staring at their Master.

The tendril that had stabbed its Master hovered in the air.

Its own arm twitched and extended, some part of them wanted to strike it while it was in the air. Maybe it wanted to stop it from reaching Kirche and Montmorency?

Well there was no need, as it simply left them be as they ran under the void tendril and knelt by the unconscious body of Louise.

They cradled her, words were spoken in panic as they tried to wake her up.

"Oh god Louise! Open your eyes, open your eyes!"

"This can't be happening... This can't be happening!"

"Quick, we need to get her blood back. Momon, come on you need to save her!"

"I don't know how!"

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T KNOW HOW. YOU WERE DOING IT JUST FINE WITH THE BLOOD ON THE GROUND!"

"And I don't know how I did any of that! Even if I could... her blood's already spilled on the ground. I don't think it would help her if I just drag it back in."

Another twitch went through its body, its other arm extended outward as well.

Its gaze was still focused on the void tendril in the air. Then it noticed that it was shrinking, pulling backwards.

Bug followed the tendril, and saw it slowly recede into the arm of the Hollow Knight and turn from the void tendril and back into a pitch black arm. Slowly the larger Vessel pulled themselves free from the rubble that Louise had buried them in.