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

each other with increasingly loud voices. Something that has changed, is the workers. Their

alright?]

me how long it's been since I last spoke

moments, I haven't even made

in the name of heck is

have mine changed. Maybe I should check my status and

my status, my species has changed. No

workers are crowding into the nest, crawling down the tunnel from below and stuffing themselves into chambers only

Wait a second!

passing Crinis on her way up. I ignore her confused questions and throw myself into the Queens

grown eerily still. The stillness feels so strange here, in this place of motions

out of the way I find the

I didn't make

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

wait restlessly in the Queens chamber for any sign of motion. It only took a few seconds for my species to change, why is it taking so much longer for them? Is it because I'm already quite close to what the new generation can evolve into, whereas the others aren't? What's going to happen to the workforce? Will they all change into new hatchlings? What exactly is going

I'm so confused!

The new hatchlings!

into the chamber, once again passing Crinis who

the egg chamber, the twenty small hatchling haven't ceased their shouting match, even as the workers who had tended them have grown still

you,

"…."

That was quick.

bellow at them, the twenty small hatchlings turn to me, immediately quietening down. I

I need you to keep still for a second so I can sort

they

want you to guard the nest from below the Queen's chamber. Crinis, head to the

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