Chrysalis

Chapter 261

As the voices of the new hatchlings ring throughout the room, and I start to wonder just what it is that I've done, another voice sounds within my mind.

[Original Species has been detected. New species type has been assigned.]

Gandalf?! What the heck are you on about?!

Is he saying that the new hatchlings are recognised by the system as a different species to mine? I did make a lot of changes…

Does this mean that the workers will attack them? That would be terrible!

Before I can process the implications of what is being said, the voice of the grey one continues to speak.

[You have been designated as the progenitor of this new species. Do you wish to align your species, and that of your colony, with this new archetype?]

Uhhhhhhhhhh.

Yes?

I suppose?

The instant I assent within my mind, there is an audible rumble around and within me. A lethargic feeling rises up through my limbs and claws towards my mind, dragging me down into the lassitude I recognise as Torpor.

[Crinis! Watch me …]

Before I can finish the sentence, my thoughts slow like congealing grease until they move no more.

…

I'm up!

How long was I

sway my eyes across the scene around me and try to process what has happened. To all appearances, not much has changed. The hatchlings are still congregating together, shouting and arguing with each other with increasingly loud voices. Something that has changed, is the workers. Their movements

everything alright?]

me how long it's been since I last

made it

the name of heck is

voice of Gandalf mentioned something about new species and I agreed to have mine changed. Maybe I should check my status and see if

up my status, my species has changed. No

nest, crawling down the tunnel from below and stuffing themselves into chambers only to immediately grow

Wait a second!

her way up. I ignore her confused questions and throw myself into the Queens chamber. Behind me I can see more workers making their way in from outside, crowding the entrance

perpetually shifting guard of workers around her has grown eerily still. The stillness feels so strange here, in this place of motions and activity in the heart

the workers out of the way I find the Queen herself, silent and

hope I didn't

new generation was born, the system recognised that a new species had been created, then gave me, the creator of that species, the

so much longer for them? Is it because I'm already quite close to what the new generation can evolve

I'm so confused!

The new hatchlings!

the tunnel into the chamber, once again passing Crinis who was carefully climbing down, trying not to

match, even as the workers who had tended them have grown

of you,

"…."

That was quick.

immediately quietening down. I didn't realise I had

at the moment, so I need you to keep still for a second

they respond in

I want you to guard the nest from below the Queen's chamber. Crinis, head to the top of the nest but stay within the anthill, don't let anything but workers come

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