Author's note: Ghost wanders the hallway with Radiance by their side...well. In their head anyways.

Exploring they go, but oh my don't go too far.

Tap, tap, tap.

The sound of their feet tapping against the shiny floor is like a beat of music to the knight's ears…wait do they even have ears?

Maybe they shouldn't have questioned something unanswerable.

Everywhere they look is white, white and white. How fancy.

"You've been saying that for hours," The Radiance said in a bored manner.

Nothing interesting is happening yet. If only there's something to break out of this loop of boring-ness.

A second after she thought that. Our brave little knight turned around the corner to find one of the great knights of Hallownest, Ogrim.

What an honor!

But it's not like seeing and greeting him from afar.

No, no.

Ghost bumped into the said knight, not able to stop in time, before falling over and hit the floor on his tiny bottom with a silent "plop".

Sensing that he had hit someone on accident, Ogrim quickly apologized to that person but then realizing that there's no one in front of him.

"Huh?" He exclaimed before looking downwards since that person must be smaller than him for him to not noticed someone like that.

Well, it's certainly a surprise when it's someone he has never seen before in his time serving the king.

"I apologize for bumping into you small one," Ogrim said kindly to the small knight and help them up on their feet with a light pull. Ghost almost tripped over but held themselves up at the last moment.

The knight just gave a slight bow with their head as a thank you. As a way to express their gratitude.

It's not like they can feel any emotions…but being with Radiance seems to have something to do with it.

The tall knight hums thoughtfully before saying to the small knight.

"Say, I have never seen you around here before…are you new?"

Ghost nodded their head, while also feeling very excited to see Ogrim again. Even though he looks very different from the future, he's still Ogrim…but less dung.

"I see…" He looks like he was going to say something else, but the sound of his knightly friend calling brought him out of his thought.

"Oh, it seems I have to go now. Nice meeting you strange child" He boasts out his famous laugh before walking in another direction of where Ghost is going.

…

"You're going to follow him, aren't you?" The Radiance said knowingly.

The small creature seems to have a knack for exploring the unknown…and getting into trouble.

Ghost didn't say anything because they already know that she knows.

Ogrim thinks that the tiny creature is very odd. Why would they walk around the palace without any place in mind?

Usually, there's only servants, knights, and winged creatures flying around, one of the king's invention it seems.

So where does that child fit in this?

As he and his friends are now in the training room, where all the knights trained here to get better at sword fighting or a friendly spar. Hegemol and Dryya are having a friendly spar right now.

The only one left sitting on the sideline is Isma since Ze'mer is on a secret mission, traveling down the Fungal Waste.

Isma seems to notice the beetle's silence and decided to point that out.

"Ogrim, what is on your mind? You're quieter than usual" She said worriedly. It's not like Ogrim to be so quiet and she's just curious what's going on inside his head.

"Well, this curious little child is wandering the palace and I thought that it was out of the ordinary" He replied to Isma as both of them sat down to watch the two combaters taking turns with their weapon.

The clanging sound of the weapon and constant yelling as they unleash their attacks made the place very lively. Even though there are only four bugs in the room.

"How curious indeed" She hummed as she thought about what he said.

Then she remembered something and said to him, "Do you think it's the king's child?"

"What makes you say that, Isma?" Ogrim's face looks very funny. It's like he's in denial. There's no way the king would have a child after all these years he has ruled.

But if he did, he wouldn't mind teaching the children some of his fighting techniques.

"Dryya told me earlier that she saw two small bugs following the king while she was with the queen" Isma answered to Ogrim.

Well, that answered his question.

Oh, it looks like Hegimol and Dryra are done with the spar…and it seems that she won too.

"Are you sure this is a good idea?" The moth spoke up after staying silent for a while.

It's not like she doesn't like risk…just…she doesn't want them to be found out by some servant and risk getting the king to know about their little "adventure" exploring the palace.

Which wouldn't make any sense for a vessel to wander around on their own without a command!

"Don't worry about it. Nothing bad is going to happen" Little did Ghost know that they just jinxed themselves and possibly the Radiance too.

Ghost wandered into some kind of training room. The room is very clean, of course, why wouldn't it be? Every room in the palace is clean

But there're also some bugs here too. Woah, four great knights! But where's Ze'mer? Oh well.

They finally see how the knights look like in real life now and in their prime too. Except for Ogrim, they already saw Ogrim like half an hour ago.

"Ghost, you can't just walk in there-"

But it was too late because they already walked into the room…at least they're doing it silently.

Though the quietness is not enough to keep themselves invisible. As the knights are perfectly trained to hear any suspicious sounds. Even the sound of rock dropping on the grassy ground of Greenpath.

This spells trouble for Ghost because a moment after that. Dryya thrust her nail-like-sword at them while the others just turned around to see who has come in.

"State your purpose here...oh," She lowered her weapon after seeing that it's the same child from this morning. The vessel just stood there unfazed though.

But they're twitching slightly. Their body falls into a warrior-like pose unconsciously and their hand is already at their back to find that there's….

Nothing

Their trusty nail isn't here

They open and close their hand a few times to make sure they're not hallucinating before lowering their hand down and straightening up their body.

Feeling a bit of panic rising because they're defenseless right at this very moment, but they didn't feel anything hitting their face right now so it's probably safe.

"How odd. Your stance is of a warrior, but you don't have any experience in fighting yet," Dryya said, amused. While hiding her weapon…somewhere safe.

Ogrim couldn't believe that the tiny child wandered into a dangerous place like this…alone, nonetheless.

His caring side kicks in as he walked over to Ghost and leaned down, so the child doesn't have to tilt their head up.

"Why are you here child. It's dangerous to wander around like this"

Ghost puffs out their chest when he said that it's "dangerous". Oh please, they even faced a god once and they're still alive!

"You haven't fought me yet" The Radiance quickly intercepts their thoughts before huffing out loud, but only Ghost could hear her.

They decided to ignore her and pointed at Ogrim.

"Me?" He said, confused.

Ghost nodded once more before pointing at him again.

The others seem to find this conversation amusing. Not every day someone would have the courage to talk to them. Especially not a child.

"So, you followed me?"

And a nod to confirm his guess.

Ogrim shakes his head disapprovingly at Ghost, but even he finds this funny.

The small knight lowered their head down in shame, feeling very embarrassed at their behavior. Wait, embarrassed? Since when do they feel embarrassed?

Seeing the child like that made the beetle rethink his action from before and wanted to cheer them up.

So, he grabbed the vessel and let them sit on his back and they're enjoying it too he thinks. With their arms in the air like a child "wooing" in happiness.

"I'm flying!" Ghost shouted in their mind.

"No you are not, Ghost-" The moth deadpan at the vessel, but then got cut off at the end.

"Shhh, please don't ruin this" They whispered back.

Isma and Dryra snickered at the two while Hegimol crosses his arm and huffed, trying to be tough, but really, he's trying his hardest to not laugh.

"Should we do something about this?" Hegemol asked the others because they need to practice their fighting skills. Not taking care of a child.

"Hmm…" As Ogrim is thinking that, another person burst into the room and it's not someone they have been expecting at all.

"Have you seen a small child walk through here?" The white lady almost shouted, she felt panic that one of the vessels is missing, but she kept her composure at the last second. So, it's like shouting but stop at the last second.

She noticed the knights looking at her with wide eyes at first, but when she looked again. What she didn't expect to see was her child…riding on one of the knight's back with the others around him.

"What is going on here? And why is it here?" It as in, the vessel on someone's back. Though everyone seems to freeze up, not knowing what to do...except Radiance.

"Ohh, you're sooooo busted" She said cheekily at the irony of this situation.

Note

Whoops, they're in trouble nooowww

This is one long chapter XD

I hope there isn't too much grammar mistake.