A Hollow Knight That Isn't Hollow

Chapter 1

I open up my eyes to see that I have been blindfolded for one eye and been laid out to rest. I turn my head over to see that Hornet is knitting something and looks up when I move.
"Good morning there sleepy head. I was wondering how long of a nap you would take." I gently raise myself up to sit up.
"Why is this here?" I point to the bandage over my eye.
"Oh I noticed that your shell was cracked so I bandaged it up so that should you fall again it wouldn't crack further." She stated as of a fact like tone but I could tell that she was more worried that she let on.
We sat in silence for a little bit before I asked "do you know what happened so that I'm here now?"
She stopped knitting and paused. It seemed like she was thinking the same thing too.
"I don't know what happened. I was expecting Ghost to arrive soon after it remembered again but I haven't seen it since then."
"Ghost?"
"Another vessel like you they were special because they had another void with them not the one you have but they left hollow nest forgoing their memory. And they have explored a lot of hollownest and have very many abilities."
"Sounds useful. So he remembered the abyss and the climb up."
"What he knows I do not know but since then Ghost's intent was far more solid and determined." She continued pondering over her project. While I did pondering of my own.
Why would Ghost be more determined was it to get revenge when I didn't help it? Was it to get rid of the radiance? Was it trying to help me? I don't know what it saw but the abyss was a terrible place to be so maybe it showed the voids future of destruction? All these questions and no answers right now.
"Hey do you know where Ghost would come back to most often?" I asked
She paused and thought for a moment before saying "dirtmouth would be my first choice mostly cause thats where the majority of hollownest is now"
"How will we be able to find it amongst a crowd" if all of hollownest was there then that was a large population even if hornet said 'rest of the population'.
She smirked at me "remove the crowds"
I try to process how that could be possible before she starts to laugh at me "there isn't very many people there, at most there's a dozen"
"Oh" I guess I never asked for how large was majority. So that must mean that I did fail many bugs were dead cause of my being not being hollow. "So should we go there now?"I asked somberly.
Still chuckling she told me" first let's get out of the temple and find the chain to dirtmouth."
"Is it far?"
"No it should be very close"
I struggle to get up with one hand as I'm used to two and Hornet noticed how lopsided I was and gasped
"You're missing a arm! when was this?"
I'm glad that hornet still cares for me even though I haven't been able to do the same back when I was "hollow". She tossed my cloak to the side and examined it more horrified than anything.
"Did it hurt?"
"What hurt? My arm no just more shocking really. But the infection...." I stumble over that, how did I feel? painful yes, but in this hindsight was it worth it?
"You don't have to say if it still hurts" she replied calmly all mother like. I almost let out a purr it was nice being tended to in a loving way not as if I was precious cargo.
"Well the best I can come up with is that the arm just ended it wasn't cut or removed so I guess we could get you a fake one in the mean while if it won't put you off balance" she conclusively told me
"I think I'll wait for now until there's a need for a new arm."
She helped me up and grabbed my nail and it was hard work for her as it was 3 times her hight and probably twice her weight. And even I couldn't just carry it, my muscles must've atrophied in the inactivity I was in. So the least humiliating way was for me to drag my nail by the tip. I could feel my nail instructor writhing in his grave on my etiquette.
It really wasn't all that far it was more awkward than anything else because not many bugs either live long enough to get to my size or have the ability to grow this big so tunnel designers did not account for my stature for easy travel. It was really frustrating. I nearly couldn't get up the well cause my horns were just barley smaller than the width of the well walls.
When I got out all I really saw was nothing, a graveyard behind me, and a few building up ahead most of which were dark. Then I could hear the sound of a bug rambling something about 57 precepts to another who looked infatuated. Then there was one last bug who was holding a flower right next to a bench. Hornet hopped up behind me and said that's where we need to go. Even though she's grown she still reminds me of when she was a child she would "order me about" to go on a adventure and I would follow along while "baby sitting". When she had a quest to do she would follow it in the most exaggerating ways possible but that was the few times I didn't need to feel hollow as she would tell me how to feel. Why pale king did you subject me to such boring and miserable life?
As we got up to the bug with the flower I noticed that the flower was so delicate that it looks like that even the wind could blow it away. The bug in question was surprised at the two of us popping out of the well and was terrified at me.
"Who are you two?"