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!

soon as she could she climbed onto my head once again and practically danced with joy as she pelted me with endless questions, observations and random statements! I can seriously feel a headache

the longer the conversation went on. Eventually I just had to shout "I need to talk to the Queen!" and started ignoring her

Anything for relief!

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 of talking

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 we are. The humans will come again,

members of the colony and wounded her, a faint anger can

have to move across the surface if we are

to sustain myself for some few days"

ok?! If you keep it to yourself again you

wave of her antennae and begins to mobilise the workers to return to the surface. As she makes her own

Queen but as soon as she begins to move away she

"Where are we going?"

south, we need

enraged. "Humans!? I

immediately become about her

we can get far enough south they

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

is asking you to die ok?! Its

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

are

Oh god.

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

…. "So why

….

Kill me.

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