A barely comprehensible not-so-first contact between the kingdom's ghost and its mortician.

Four bugs, for a varying range of values for 'bugs', are stuck in a room together. Entertainment has to be had somehow.

The beginnings of a time-travel fixit, featuring Ghost as a time traveler dropped into the past without much more than the cloak on their back, Greenpath Vessel as baby, Lost Kin as prescient and lowkey filled with rage, a random shade somehow tagging along, and the Hollow Knight as Knight Mostly Not Appearing In This Fic.

Its leaves are dry and bland. The bud is unpleasantly sour, but oh! The venom in those balls it spits. Exquisite! If you have the time to spare, try drinking some and enjoy the effects.

Ghost makes a questionable decision (fucks around), and discovers something (finds out.)

Hornet attempts a moment's rest alone in the City of Tears. She does not succeed.

"After rigorous testing, I consider you a worthy opponent," the priestess explains, as if she is speaking to a very small child. "One awarded my respect, and my... admiration."

There is another, longer pause. And then it clicks.

The faint warm shadow on the priestess's dark cheeks. The coy stance, the playful smile. Her laughter. (Laughter that echoed bell-like in Hornet's head for hours after their first meeting, that seemed like it would haunt her merrily forever--)

"You," and Hornet has to take a breath here, in and out, to steady her stance, "have been hounding me by blade and foot-soldiers through your kingdom for a fortnight like some common beast of the hunt, and now you claim you have all along aimed to court me?"

It must be a trick of her mind, though. Crystals don't know songs; they only sing, and she sings to them, with them, for them. She lands the pick again, and again, and each syllable twines around the tuning-fork hum of the crystals like a duet.

Or: It's easy to lose your mind, alone in the dark.

A stag finds a traveler, and the world begins to become whole.

In which Zote briefly ventures into the Abyss.

The Knight tries out the Weaversong charm.