[ Hollow Knight. ]

— Do not think... Do not speak... Do not hope... Do not...

"Deepest silence in holy shell,

Given nail and named a Knight,

Bound by chain and egg and spell,

Hear Our plea! Reveal thy Light!"

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You were a regular bug, settled up in Dirtmouth for life to just do your job. With the light of the king giving everyone the ability to think, you decided to delve into that. Into the mind of the bug. You soon find out you can get into a job in the area of psychology. You choose to be a therapist, for some reason. Be it your instinct to help others strongly influencing you, or the fact that you just loved knowing what was going on in other lives that aren't yours. You seemed to be doing pretty great progress regardless of what reason made you pick this job! The money you were paid was decent, your curiosity was sated and you were genuinely helping others out.

All nice and fun, until you suddenly received a mail on your doorstep. A mail with a ROYAL pin on it. Uh oh. Looks like not lots of bugs picked out psychology as a drive for a career. And the ones that did, well... they weren't doing nearly as good as you. You were convocated to a classified job inside the White Palace, involving your skills as a therapist.

Of course you're not letting an opportunity like that pass.

You pack your things, say your goodbyes to other merchants you were friendly with and to your patients and you go down to the stag station to get your ride to the palace. And you arrive safely, thankfully. The totally-not-terrifying void guards guide you to your designated room, which looked WAY better than the mess you had back at Dirtmouth and you se a letter waiting for you at the top of the bed. You read... oh my god.

Your classified job is to extract the Pure Vessel's impurities to guarantee a perfect containment of the infection.

...They just so happened to forget to mention that they didn't mean only psychological impurities.

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[ Pure Vessel x User // Yumeship. ]