Chrysalis

Chapter 162

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!

practically danced with joy as she pelted

responses became shorter and shorter the longer the conversation went on. Eventually I

Anything for relief!

Vibrant's endless thirst for conversation in my absence, seeing as she's the only

the Queen has risen to an even higher level. What saint like patience! What incredible tolerance for

the colony once more. We

of the creatures who killed so many members of the colony and wounded her, a faint anger

The problem is that you'll have to move across the surface if we are going to escape quickly enough. Do you think

my question for a moment before nodding. "I believe I will be able to sustain myself for some few days" she says, "I will

keep it to yourself

makes her own way to the enlarged opening they created for her to enter the layer of workers around her just shuffles along, maintaining their defensive positions as she

to the Queen but as soon as she begins to move away she

"Where are we going?"

we need to escape

immediately became enraged. "Humans!? I will die to protect

this immediately become

we just need to move! If we can get far enough south they

little mollified. "Ok then. But let me know if I need to sacrifice my life for

asking you to

and shuffles about on my head a little more before moving

are

Oh god.

as the colony is assembled we are going

"So why

….

Kill me.

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