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!
as she
my responses became shorter and shorter the longer the conversation went
Anything for relief!
my predicament. I can only imagine that the Queen has been enduring Vibrant's endless thirst for conversation in
risen to an even higher level. What saint like patience! What incredible tolerance for
"Mother, we need to move the colony once more. We aren't safe if
many members of the colony and wounded her, a faint
that they won't follow. The problem is that you'll have to move
before nodding. "I believe I will be able to sustain myself for some few days" she says, "I will let you know when the
ok?! If you keep it to yourself
to 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 positions as she
to the Queen but as soon as she begins to move away she pipes up again with
"Where are we going?"
need to escape the
became enraged. "Humans!? I will die to protect the
immediately become about her
don't need to die or anything, we just need to move! If we can get far enough south
mollified. "Ok then. But let me know
to
about on my head a
what are
Oh god.
move out. As soon as
why
….
Kill me.
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