Chrysalis

So... I mean.. It’s a little odd...

I was a human before after all. I may not have lived what people would call a ... normal life ... but hey, I went to school, a bit, I saw people, I ate human food.

Now I have a giant ant Queen staring down at me and insisting that she and my many siblings are my family now.

...

For some reason I’m surprisingly ok with that.

I had a pet ant colony as a human, I kept them contained and fed them, watched the colony grow and cleaned out their spaces for them. In some ways they were the most constant members of my household, I certainly saw them every day, which wasn’t really true of anyone else.

Perhaps that is why I don’t really mind being an ant.

If I’m going to be a member of this family then I have to do my best to save them!

I start thinking out loud.

"Ok then, Queen, I don’t think we are uh, strong enough to survive the wave. If our nest is invaded from the outside as well as the inside, we could be completely wiped out!"

The Queen looks concerned and taps me with her antennae, urging me to continue.

"I think we need to move the colony! We have to get somewhere ... else. Somewhere safer".

"Do you know where we should go child?"

Err.... No?

We live in the Dungeon, and from what I’m told the entire place is going to become a death zone for up to a week!

I don’t even know that the surface will be safe from the impending danger!

...

... it may be safer

that would be suicide, but with my Tunnel Map I

...

we all get killed by those powerful

down here, will the

think we have to take a

waited patiently as my thoughts run circles inside my head.

a new tunnel to the surface!" I

slowly digests this bombshell, taking time to think

Then she responds.

the

...

course, how could she possibly

will dig a new tunnel upwards, that bypasses the existing Dungeon passages and if

is simple enough that

moment, her monster intelligence mulling over this suggestion. I wait nervously for her to

surprise she calmly

will do as you suggest

order works in a monstrous ant colony. In a normal

and check it out and if they agree with the first ants opinion, they will join in, eventually when enough workers have agreed on a

of the workers. If anything, she is probably closer to what most humans think an ant Queen is like on earth, in charge, making decisions and actively helping

that they can understand my pheromone language to some extent, perhaps she can just

of my

I’ll start digging the tunnel, if you can

to Formo, I’ve already noticed the brightness of the forest has diminished. The mana is continuing to recede, just as the Sophos had predicted. The forest is going to grow even

antennae before retreating back to the security of the nest, leaving the workers to

just that, continued to comb over the battlefield and collect the spoils of war. As more times goes by the number of ants showing visible

stronger then we will have a greater chance to

have any brothers or sisters that I knew of in my last life, going from that to having hundreds is