According to the first version I heard, I had killed a C-rank knight with one swing.
According to the second, the knight had surrendered. I preferred the second. It required less from my hand and more sense from the knight.
Neither version survived the clerk bringing the actual reports to my bedside. The outer team had contained and resealed the Hollow Knight. The trapped group had fought the Echo Warden. Two separate constructs, two separate places, and enough witnesses to make confusing them a choice rather than an accident.
I corrected the student who had repeated the story within my hearing. I could not follow him through the academy correcting everyone he had heard it from.
He asked whether I had at least used the black sword against the knight.
"I never saw the knight."
"But the weapon was there."
"With me. In the other chamber."
