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!

Crinis! How long was I

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

Is everything alright?]

long it's been since I last

few moments, I haven't even made it up

few seconds? What in the name of

about new species and I agreed to have mine changed. Maybe I should check my status and see if anything

enough, when I bring up my status, my

crawling down the tunnel from below and

Wait a second!

I ignore her confused questions and throw myself into the Queens chamber.

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

of the way I find the Queen herself, silent and

I hope I didn't make a

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

Is it because I'm already quite close to what the new generation can evolve into, whereas the others aren't? What's going

I'm so confused!

The new hatchlings!

who was

as the workers who had tended them have grown still around them. Feeling somewhat anxious about the changing situation, I don't have

you,

"…."

That was quick.

at them, the twenty small hatchlings turn to me, immediately quietening down. I didn't realise I

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

they respond

chamber. Crinis, head to the top of the nest

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