metamorphosis by combat

typically, in the rare few cases when the five great knights are given particular students to train, they have some exceptional level of skill, or it is needed for their student to be particularly good because of some task they will serve in hallownest's name. the hive knight is a fragment of a greater working body - a hive is a whole, almost an organism unto itself. he will admit to some . . . disquiet in being away from it, in this place of sterility, so white it can blind. the bugs of hallownest are not particularly welcoming to outsiders, either. quirrel must gain some competence with a nail - monomon has fewer and fewer students these days, and it's important someone be able to protect the archives. especially with the whisperings of the other academic bodies in hallownest - the soul sanctum comes to mind. but he's a scholar and a wanderer first and foremost. there's some doubt as to how good he'll actually be with a weapon. hornet is a child.