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!

with joy as she pelted me

my best to answer her at first but my responses became shorter and shorter the longer the conversation went on. Eventually I just had to shout "I need

Anything for relief!

endless thirst for conversation in my absence, seeing as she's the only other ant capable of

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

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

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

can go that they won't follow. The problem is that you'll have to move across the surface if we are going to escape quickly enough.

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

great! Make sure you tell me ok?! If you keep it to

return to the surface. As she makes her own way to the enlarged opening

whilst I was speaking to the Queen but as

"Where are we going?"

south, we need to

enraged. "Humans!? I

immediately

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

then. But let me know if I need to sacrifice

you to die

a little more before moving onto her next line of

are we

Oh god.

soon as

…. …. …. "So why

….

Kill me.

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