In the original release, Act 1 ended on a cliffhanger: Puck gets infected but resists the hive mind just long enough to meet a mysterious figure known only as "The Queen."
Let me go! Puck screamed in his mind. Please! I’m just a boy! I didn’t do anything!
"A new trick for an old soul! The sky feels... heavier today. Or perhaps I’ve just grown a few extra legs to carry the weight?"
It was behind an abandoned chapel, under a stone buttress where pigeons used to roost. The nest was a cluster of glistening sacks, each trembling faintly like caught breath. Puck thought it a treasure—sometimes rats left bits of silk and glass in nests. He prodded one with a stick. The sack shivered, split, and something the color of old brass uncurled: a ribbed, translucent larva with too many tiny mouths. It latched to his wrist before he could jerk away.