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

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.

alright?] Crinis asks,

it's been since I last spoke to

I haven't even made it up the tunnel

few seconds? What in the name of heck

and I agreed to have mine changed. Maybe I

I bring up my status, my species has changed. No longer

the tunnel from below and stuffing

Wait a second!

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, crowding the entrance and crawling over each other to make

eerily still. The stillness feels so

shifting the workers out of the way I find the

hope I didn't make

reading the situation correctly, the moment the new generation was born, the system recognised that a new species had been

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

I'm so confused!

The new hatchlings!

up the tunnel into the chamber, once again passing Crinis who was carefully climbing down, trying not to obstruct any

as the workers who had tended them have

of you,

"…."

That was quick.

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

moment, so I need you to keep still for a second so I can

they

want you to guard the nest from below the Queen's chamber. Crinis, head to the top of the nest but stay within the anthill, don't

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