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

has changed. The hatchlings are still congregating together, shouting and arguing with each other with increasingly loud voices. Something that has changed, is

everything alright?] Crinis asks,

long it's been since I last spoke

I haven't even made it

in the name of heck is

and I agreed to have mine changed. Maybe

I bring up my status, my species has

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

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. Behind me I can see more workers making their way in from outside,

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

I didn't

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

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

I'm so confused!

The new hatchlings!

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

tended them have grown still around them. Feeling

of you, shut

"…."

That was quick.

twenty small hatchlings turn to me, immediately quietening down. I didn't realise I had this much

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

they

nest from below the Queen's chamber. Crinis, head to the top of the nest

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