Chapter 2

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Far, far away at the howling cliffs where hardly anything roamed, far out where sight was little and little voices or anything could be heard besides the howling winds and distant screams of bugs and entities far larger then anything in Hallownest near its borders lay a large stone where a large and fully-grown vessel lay, sitting down with its mighty great nail on its back. Suddenly a distant echo, a howl, a…call was heard and with the vessel moved ever so slightly as its eyes opened once again for what felt like centuries.

 Suddenly a distant echo, a howl, a…call was heard and with the vessel moved ever so slightly as its eyes opened once again for what felt like centuries

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(Illustration by SHAK)

The vessel then began to get itself up but had some trouble for it had gotten use to not having to carry its great nail around. The vessel looked at its great nail, it had forgotten how he had gotten it in the first place or at least couldn’t recall all too well. Suddenly though he felt large footsteps making its way towards it. The vessel looked over as it saw this large towering beetle looming over it, the beetle then began to snap at the vessel which it clumsily dodged its attacks until it ended up tripping over its own feet.

Sloppy” the vessel thought to itself as it then caught itself thinking

Was that…a thought…I’m thinking…” the vessel thought to itself only to then get smacked by the large beetle knocking the vessel into a giant boulder, the vessel then reached behind it in attempt to wield it’s great nail, but couldn’t even muster up the strength to do that much.

Too weak” the vessel thought to itself as it rolled out of the way of an attack from the beetle, the vessel then began to run towards the cliffs leading the beetle away from the desert plains. The vessel then jumped up and grabbed onto a ledge lifting itself up as it then turned around and then with all of its force lifted the great nail and jumped down plunging the mighty nail straight through the large foe cutting it right in half. The vessel watched as the bug split and then looked down at its nail with much concern.

Can’t even lift my own weapon, how am I to do anything in such a horrid state like this…” the vessel thought to itself as it then struggled to put its great nail back onto its back, it then looked forward towards the cliffs and began to make its way forward through the howling cliffs. As the vessel made its way through it was for a moment illuminated by a blue light, it turned around to see what it was, but the light and its source had vanished almost instantly. Soon the vessel then found a way down through the howling cliffs and would find itself in greenpath.

This place…its been too long” the vessel thought to itself as it continued down through the pathways through greenpath, as it made its way through it heard squirming and a giant creature like noise coming from one of the many routes through greenpath. The vessel decided to make a detour and check it out, he then saw a small bug being attacked by a vengefly king, the vessel looked at it in curiosity to how a bug could get in such a weird position, but didn’t think too long on it. The vessel then saw a stone on the ground and picked it up, it crushed it into a smaller piece and flicked it at the vengefly with immense force going straight through its head with immense pressure and ease dropping the smaller bug onto the hard ground with a thud. The vessel walked over to it and picked up the small bug, curious if it was ok the vessel shook it violently with one arm.

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