Chrysalis

There they are. Look at them. Peacefully sleeping for now, awaiting the day when they awake and take their first steps into the world. Shhhhhh little ones. You don't know it yet, but the world will be your oyster. Yes it will! You will roam wherever you wish and bring prosperity to our family. Our enemies will flee before your strength and become food beneath your mighty mandibles.

Yes they will! You adorable little things!

[Master]

WHA?! What now?!

[Crinis, why are you interrupting egg time?!]

[I'm very sorry Master but I believe I have detected another wave approaching from the tunnels below]

Haaaa. These stupid monsters just won't stop! I'm going to have to work out a solution for this problem before the time approaches. These waves have caused no end of headaches and significant losses to the colony over the last week. Those Crocs down below are going to get what's coming to them, the sooner the better.

[I'm on the way Crinis. Tiny wake up! Time to fight]

[oh? OHHHH! FIGHT!]

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in fact, the only occupants of the egg chamber and the workers have been caring for them diligently but I can't help coming up to take a look

a lot of work to create those eggs! I deserve to be a little happy now

to lay this small clutch and it'll take a few more days before they hatch and then two weeks for them to complete their time as larvae and become pupa, then a little longer for them to finally eclose and take their place under my

It's soooo loooong!

I'm so frustrating right now. I feel like kids probably felt at Christmas when there were presents waiting under the tree. I didn't get to experience that during my human life but I think I finally

nest, through the Queens chamber and into the area my pets and I have made our home. It's been somewhat expanded recently, mainly to accommodate Tiny and allow us a little more space in fighting of

significant gains in pumping up our new skills and our overall combat effectiveness has risen as a result. I'm quite pleased that my pets now have properly allocated skill points and mutation advancements, even if

of the ruckus and rushed down to support her. By the time Tiny and I returned it had been cleaned up and casualties were at the minimum. We were a bit more cautious after that and tried to

the colony had engaged with them and started calling for reinforcements. When the Queen's guards in

in it. When the battle raged the fighting had gone right to their doorsteps. Being saved by the colony seems to have driven their affection for ant monsters to even greater heights. When

more careful

was safe first. That was

my family and

tentacles down the tunnel for more than a hundred metres, stretching her strange flesh to the limit in order to detect vibrations down the

Crinis. Time to

[Yes Master]

extended down the tunnel back into her body. When the task is done she inflates herself

ready. His hands clench and unclench repeatedly as if he can't wait to allow his fists to go to work.