An Armattian named Falco

*"An Armattian named Falco" was a story that was spread around youngling communities in Hallownest. It has many ties overall to Revlon's life.*

*It was written by u/a\_literal\_leaf - go show him appreciation!*

## *Royal Waterways, Sector B.*

*A group of five bugs hid within a small mop closet, tucked away in the Waterways. Inside were five small, child like bugs. One firefly, One termite, One stonefly, and two other bugs. Vessels. One shorter than the other. The stone fly, named Aerizo, brings a book to his fellow bugs.*

Aerizo: "Hey, check this out... I found it... on a street corner on day."

*The termite, Erik, began to speak.*

Erik: "What is it about?"

Aerizo: "It's an old story about this guy... An Armattian... Named Falco."

*The firefly, Rya, walked toward Aerizo*

Rya: "So... Did you read it?"

Aerizo: "Yeah... I did. It's crazy. It says it's based a true story... So! It happened for real! You guys want me to tell you want happened?"

Rya: "Yeah!"

Erik: "Yeah!"

Aerizo: "...Hey, Silos!... Revlon!... You want to hear this?"

*Both Silos and Revlon sat in the corner the room staring at the water flowing by, before Aerizo called to them. They looked at each other before nodding at Aerizo. They slowly made there way to the rest of the group.*

Aerizo: "So... It starts in this Armattian mining town called 'Istra Ridge'. Falco was born there. But he had to work in the mines when he was still a kid... to help his family. Thats where he met his best friend, Parga. Together they made it out of the mines together to live a new life in the actual town itself. Falco finds someone he likes and... they fall in love."

Rya: "Aerizo, your just explaining the story, not actually reading it!"

Erik: "Yeah, no fair!"

Aerizo: "But anyway... Soon they have to leave the town to fight in the army. But now they've grown up and... and changed. Falco looked at things differently and so does Parga. Then... Parga eventually gets... para... noid. He started to see Falco as a weak person... and this got worse when they returned home. Falco eventually told him... he couldn't be with him anymore... Since by now... Falco had a family of his own a year after he got back home."

Rya: "So... what happened?"

Aerizo: "The town was suffering through a famine... they needed food to buy... so, both of them... they planned a steal a cargo from an Armattian supply cara... car... car... ra... van... To help support themselves and Falco's family."

Erik: "Then what happened?"

Aerizo: "Then, they failed. Then they tried over and over again for every cara... van... But they kept failing. Parga kept blaming Falco for their failures and eventually... he tried to kill him."

Rya: "But why!? He didn't do anything!"

Aerizo: "I know... But Falco got away... So to get back at him... Parga does the worst thing possible. He kills Falco's family."

Erik: "...But... What's gonna happen to Falco?"

Aerizo: "...In the book it says that he was uh... lemme see... "in a state of utter grief"...then, he left the city for nine years! But during those years... Falco meet an old man, who... helped him move on from the death of his family and soon after those nine years, he began to plan his revenge on Parga. The old man told him to forget about Parga, telling him that taking revenge will not bring his family back... but he went away. By now, Parga finally managed to steal one cara... va... caravan... and became rich. He had these bodyguards and nice dinner to celebrate. Then, Falco went in as another guest, he knew Parga would notice he was there, so what he did was that he set off a distraction to scare away the other guests... and started to fight every bodyguard in the room."

Rya: "Then what?"

Aerizo: "After the fight... Falco confront Parga... then after a long battle, Falco defeated Parga. But even then... the old man was right... this didn't bring back his family. So... Falco left the town, never to be seen again... to find a new purpose in life... Well, it isn't a very happy ending... but it's an ending. What did you guys think?"

Rya: "...I have feeling you skipped over a lot of things in that story, Aerizo."

Erik: "Yeah, I think you did."

Aerizo: "...whatever... and you guys?"

*Silos and Revlon stared at the two blankly before giving a small thumbs up. Aerizo then closed, and sat the book down on the ground.*

Aerizo: "We have to stick together... so that doesn't happen to us. Right?"

Rya: "Right."

Erik: "Right."

*Silos and Revlon nodded.*

Aerizo: "We have to get back to work soon. Get ready."

*The group nodded as they grabbed there cleaning materials, before heading back out into waterways to continue there work. While the waterways were dangerous, they helped each other, they stayed with one another, they protected one another.*

*No matter what happened, they stayed together.*

*...right?*