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!

my head once again and practically danced with joy as she pelted me with endless questions, observations and

my best to answer her at first but my responses became shorter and shorter the longer the conversation went

Anything for relief!

seemed slightly amused by my predicament. I can only imagine that the Queen has been enduring Vibrant's endless thirst for conversation in my absence, seeing as she's the only other ant capable

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

I speak to the Queen. "Mother, we need to move the colony once more. We aren't safe if we remain where we are. The humans will come again, and

members of the colony and wounded her,

that you'll have to move across the surface

to sustain myself for some few days" she says, "I will let you know when the

it to yourself again you really might get killed

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 her just shuffles along, maintaining their defensive

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

"Where are we going?"

we need to escape the

became enraged. "Humans!? I will die

immediately become about

need to die or anything, we just need to move! If we can

then. But let me know if I need to sacrifice my life for the

you to die ok?!

a little more before moving onto

are

Oh god.

as the colony is assembled we

…. …. "So why are your antennae

….

Kill me.

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