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!

she climbed onto my head once again and practically danced with joy as she pelted me with endless

at first but my responses became shorter and shorter the longer the conversation went on. Eventually

Anything for relief!

that the Queen has been enduring Vibrant's endless thirst for conversation in my absence, seeing

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

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

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

follow. The problem is that you'll have to move across the surface

able to sustain

If you keep it to yourself again you really

makes her own way to the enlarged opening they created for her to

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

"Where are we going?"

south, we need to

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

this immediately become about her

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

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

asking you to

and shuffles about on my head a little more before moving onto her next

what are

Oh god.

going to get ready to move out. As soon as the colony is assembled we are going

…. …. "So why are your antennae

….

Kill me.

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