hollow knight/rain world crossover content

[labugrynthian]

[ five pebbles condescending to slugcatbugs about karma five hours unskippable]

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[weaversong]

Once again, asking Five Pebbles a question has him responding with a wealth of information. Not being able to speak directly is still tricky, but there's something satisfying about successfully piecing together the Overseer's pictographs. It's like a puzzle, in a way.

The murals and their accompanying images are already helping her make sense of the symbols. She's glad to see that the symbol for danger really does seem to be a combination of two of the mural symbols. Violence or conflict combined with food. Or, no, not quite food. Consumption, perhaps? The act of eating? Two of the others she thinks she at least gets the broad implications; the second set of images is fairly straight-forward, even if she's not certain if the image is meant to indicate the simple act of mating or the more complex nuances of taking a mate, and the third is easily read as companionship or family.

The fifth one evades her, however. The accompanying images seem to have little directly in common, only being simple displays of bugs living their lives. Perhaps that is the meaning, then. Life, existence, the mundanity of moving from one day to the next.

Though its presentation is more esoteric, she's grasps the meaning behind the circle of symbols much faster. The even spacing between them makes her think of the spokes of a wheel, and it's only too easy to connect it to the Wheel that Five Pebbles once discussed. A circle, a cycle, and these five acts are a crucial part of it. And the other symbols, Five Pebbles might not define them but she can see the pattern in their form. A larger circle enclosing four smaller ones, and at each new stage another smaller circle is eliminated until they've been crossed out entirely.

"These murals represent acts," she finally says, after a long contemplative silence. "And these acts are... components? Of the Wheel you and this land's residents are bound to."