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!

long

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 of torpor

Is everything alright?]

me how long it's been since I last spoke to

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

seconds? What in the name of heck is going on

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

enough, when I bring up my status, my species

crawling down the tunnel from below and stuffing themselves into chambers only to immediately

Wait a second!

ignore her confused questions and throw myself into the Queens chamber. Behind me I can

find the perpetually shifting guard of workers around her has grown eerily still. The stillness feels

of the way

I didn't

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 to

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

I'm so confused!

The new hatchlings!

chamber, once again passing Crinis who was carefully climbing down, trying not

chamber, the twenty small hatchling haven't ceased their shouting match, even as the workers who had tended them have grown still around them. Feeling somewhat anxious about the changing

you, shut

"…."

That was quick.

down. I didn't realise

I need you to keep

senior!" they respond in

I 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 let anything but workers come down,

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