Despite what people often thought, the mask didn't hinder Vessel’s ability to see from behind the mesh-lined eyeholes. Previous iterations of the Vessel mask did narrow his field of view slightly, but the new one he had been wearing on stage since the release of Sleep Token’s newest record, Take Me Back To Eden, was undoubtedly a step up from the older ones.

That being said, he was used to navigating a lit stage when he wore the mask, not a badly lit backstage area of a festival at night. The gravel crunched beneath his shoes as he crossed the short distance between the stage and Sleep Token’s dressing room, ready to shower to get the paint off and get out of the costume.

With his thoughts on the performance he had just finished, Vessel made the swift decision to take a shortcut across an unlit grassy area toward the trailers, when he suddenly collided with someone and tumbled to the ground, falling backwards onto the dewy grass with a warm body on top of him.