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 was I

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

Is everything alright?] Crinis asks,

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

haven't even made it up the tunnel

the

about new species and I agreed to have mine changed. Maybe I should check my status and

status, my species has

tunnel from below and stuffing themselves into chambers only to immediately

Wait a second!

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

of workers around her has grown eerily still. The stillness feels so

of the way I find the

boy. I hope I didn't

system recognised that a new species had been created, then gave me, the creator of that species, the right to change

restlessly in the Queens chamber for 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?

I'm so confused!

The new hatchlings!

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

egg 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

of you,

"…."

That was quick.

me, immediately quietening down. I didn't realise I had this much charisma as

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

senior!" they respond

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

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