No one on either side of Moonflow Stream expected the situation to turn out this way.
The Little Black Hands were utterly disappointed that their long-planned entrance did not surprise anyone. But the plan was already in motion, and they had to grit their teeth and carry it through step by step.
Igor and his group initially didn't realize that the hands emerging from the ground were the same ones that had been dragging them from behind. At first, Igor thought they appeared somewhat familiar. However, as time passed and the Little Black Hands behaved increasingly childishly, he began to suspect these were different entities...
The ones capable of stealthily dragging us from behind absolutely wouldn't act so juvenile, Igor thought. And we've been in a standoff with them for so long. How could they show up and then behave so indecisively?
