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!

and practically danced with joy as she pelted

went on. Eventually I just had to shout "I need to talk to the

Anything for relief!

that the Queen has been enduring Vibrant's endless thirst for

an even higher level. What saint like patience! What incredible tolerance for her own

emotions I speak to the Queen. "Mother, we need to move the colony once more. We aren't safe if we

so many members of the colony and wounded her, a faint

we can go that they won't follow. The problem is that you'll have to

nodding. "I believe I will be able to sustain myself for some few days" she says, "I will let you know when

me ok?! If you keep it to yourself again you really

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

herself in whilst I was speaking to the Queen but as soon as she

"Where are we going?"

south, we need to

"Humans!? I will die to protect the

this immediately become about her

or anything, we just need to move! If we can get far enough south they won't

let me know if I need to sacrifice

you to die

on my head a little more before moving onto her next

what are we

Oh god.

out. As soon as the colony is assembled we

"So why are your antennae so

….

Kill me.

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