#In the original idea Hornet actually picked them up from their household which got the reaction of 'IS THAT THE FUCKING PRINCESS

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Okok can I ask how and when Lummis and Petunia find out that PV is supposed to be sealed away forever??? I've gotta know pls ur au is so awesome oml

AA THANK YOU, I'M ALWAYS HAPPY TO TALK ABOUT MY BABYGIRLS

So, PV visited them the day before their accolade. They'd often sneak around and come visit them in the late evenings when their duties for the day were finished and they were sent to their room, sometimes even managing to catch them during supper so they could sit and eat with them, just like on that day. Their presentation to Hallownest was a public event, so they were very relieved to hear that none of them had plans to go hear Pale King's announcement because they already had plans for a family dinner. They had no intentions of telling them either, they didn't want their last moments together to be soured. They wanted their loved ones to remember them as they knew them, not as a sacrificial lamb clad in heavy, restrictive armour and chains. They'd find out eventually. PV wrote a letter to them that they asked Hornet to deliver after they've been sealed.

Of course, things didn't turn out as they had planned, and after they panicked and ran from the throne room they went to the one place they felt safest at; their home. They needed comfort and assurance so they ran to the only people they felt safe around at that moment.

They were cleaning up after dinner when they heard frantic knocking on the door and when they opened it there stood PV, still in their fancy armour and crying their eyes out, and they immediately burst into barely comprehensible strong of apologies.

They of course took them in and let them sit on the couch and Lummis' mother, Allene, went to make them some calming tea. Eventually, they calmed down enough and immediately came clear about everything. At least, as much as they could without devolving into hours of explanation.

They told them of the entire plan, their training, the fact they were meant to be sealed with Radiance today had they not panicked, and of course of their nature relating to void. And then to top it all off, they confessed that the Pale King and White Lady were their parents.

They were reasonably shocked, to say the least. But unlike PV thought they would be, they weren't angry nor did they blame them. I mean, they lost a good portion of their life and were scheduled to be sealed with a wrathful goddess for the rest of eternity, who could blame them for wanting to have a normal life and be treated normally?

They were angry, just not at them. All of this was bad enough, but the fact that they did this to their own child? Petunia has no self-preservation skills because if she could she would absolutely fist-fight a God.

PV eventually figures that the guards are looking for them and, not wanting to get their loved ones in trouble, they decide to leave their house, even when their partners and family protest. They weren't sure if they wanted to come back to the palace, until they stumbled upon Hornet who was also looking for them and she convinced them to come back with her and come clean.

After the accolade disaster part two: electric boogaloo, they come back to them again. Again, crying their eyes out. And this time stay with them for two weeks to cool off until they get enough courage to return home. They just didn't want to deal with the immediate fallout of All Of That.

There is a layer of hilarity to this though, because Petunia not only constantly criticised PK and made jokes about him, but he is also a professional comedian so these jokes weren't limited to their partners and family.

So you can only imagine their reaction when PV essentially went "Hey so you know that guy you've been continuously joking about and insulting for the past three years that we've known each other? Yeah, that's my dad."