Chaper Two:

Hornet handed a letter to Skippy the Mantis Youth. "Please send this to Deepnest, to... her, yes. Thank you."

She looked at this child, now bound by her thread, and it cocked its head and said:

"Ma... Ma?"

Hornet felt her face flush.

"I am not your mother-"

Somehow, the child escaped the thread bindings, and sat in the crook of Hornet's mask.

"Mama."

"No."

It slid off of her mask and into her lap. It wrapped itself in her dress-cloak, and sleepily said, "Mama."

Hornet was happy she found this child, and decided it would be her son. She called him her little Knight.

A week passed quite uneventfully, and a large bug's steps could be heard. In walked Herrah the Beast, the mother of Hornet.

"Hello, Daughter."

"Hello, Mother. I will prepare some tea."

Hornet left for literally 5 minutesto find her mom holding her little Knight.

"M-MOTHER-!"