It's been two hours now and the little worker just. Won't. Stop!
"Why is your carapace so shiny?"
"How'd you get so big?"
"Can I do the magicky stuff?"
"Isn't talking FUN!"
"What are you doin'?"
"What are you doin' now?"
"Do you like eating? I think it's the best!"
"Should we dig something? I love digging!"
And on, and on.
It turned out the little lump on her back was Crinis who seemed delighted to grab hold of my antennae and migrate onto my back. She even quietly spoke up, saying [Welcome back master] after she'd settled onto my carapace.
So polite! Her voice was very soft and reserved, not at all like the image of the full grown JellyMaw I remember.
All that effort I spent making her more intelligent seems to have paid off! It'll be nice to have a pet I can have a decent conversation with. Tiny is great at the whole silent companionship thing but isn't much for a detailed conversation. Only thing is the little pet seems extremely reticent, no matter how I prodded I wasn't able to get any more words out of her.
Maybe she's just shy…
Vibrant on the other hand…. Apparently the bizzarre hatchling doesn't seem to struggle with this public speaking.
She won't shut up!
as she pelted me with endless questions, observations and random
and shorter the longer the conversation went on. Eventually
Anything for relief!
imagine that the Queen has been enduring Vibrant's endless thirst
risen to an even higher level. What saint like patience! What
I speak to the Queen. "Mother, we need to move the colony once more. We aren't safe if we remain where
killed so many members of the colony and wounded her, a faint anger
problem is that you'll have to move across the surface if we are going to escape quickly enough. Do you think you
to sustain myself for some few days" she says, "I will let you know when the feeling of
me ok?! If you keep it
with a wave of her antennae and begins to mobilise the workers to return to the surface. As she makes her own way to the enlarged opening they created for her to enter the layer of workers around
the Queen but as soon as she begins to move away she pipes
"Where are we going?"
need
became enraged. "Humans!? I
this immediately become about
If we can get far enough south they won't want to
mollified. "Ok then. But let me know if I need to sacrifice my life for the
is asking you to die ok?!
shuffles about on my head a little more before moving onto her next line
what are we
Oh god.
As soon as the colony is assembled we are going to leave" I
…. "So why
….
Kill me.
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