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

congregating together, shouting and arguing with each other with increasingly loud voices. Something that has changed, is the workers. Their movements are slowing, some of them are already still, and I recognise the creeping lethargy

everything alright?] Crinis

it's been since

moments, I haven't even made it up

the name of

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

bring up my status, my species

passes, workers are crowding into the nest, crawling down the tunnel from below

Wait a second!

rush down the main tunnel of the nest, passing Crinis on her way up. I ignore her confused questions and throw myself into the Queens chamber.

the perpetually shifting guard of workers around her has grown eerily still. The stillness feels so strange here,

way I find the Queen

boy. I hope I

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

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!

the chamber, once again passing Crinis who was carefully climbing down, trying

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

you,

"…."

That was quick.

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

need you to keep still for a

they respond in

nest from below the Queen's chamber. Crinis, head to the top of the nest but stay within the anthill,

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