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

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

everything alright?] Crinis asks,

tell me how long it's been since I last

moments, I haven't even made it up the tunnel to

few seconds? What in the name

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

up my status, my species has changed.

crowding into the nest, crawling down the tunnel from

Wait a second!

confused questions and throw myself into the

workers around her has grown eerily still. The stillness feels so strange here, in this place of

of the way I find

I hope I didn't

new generation was born, the system recognised that a new species had been created, then

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

I'm so confused!

The new hatchlings!

back up the tunnel into the chamber, once again passing Crinis who was carefully

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

you, shut

"…."

That was quick.

twenty small hatchlings turn to me, immediately quietening down. I didn't realise I had this much charisma as a leader. I'm impressed

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

they respond in

chamber. Crinis, head to the top of the nest but stay within the anthill, don't let

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