Couldn't keep up eh? The monster kind is supreme, huh? We can faster, further, longer! Morrelia must have been laughing up her sleeve whilst looking down at my stupid, fat face. After we left the Village, giving Morrelia a short period of time to inform her squad and pack her essentials we set off, leaving a concerned looking Enid behind as we journeyed to the north, heading back towards the ravaged lands of the former kingdom of Liria.
My budding attitude as a monster supremacist has been thoroughly crushed by the leather armoured, dark haired woman. With Tiny lumbering at my side and Crinis riding on my back we departed at a run, sprinting away through the trees, clods of dirt flying behind us as we employed our dash skills, drawing on our reserves of stamina.
I'd been so confident!
What a fool.
When we stopped to rest after thirty minutes of solid dashing, Tiny and I both huffing and puffing, pushed to our limits by the physical exertion, I turned to find Morrelia standing behind me, a quizzical frown on her face. She wasn't even sweating!
I'd been so startled to see her, my eyes had almost bugged out my head. I can only give thanks that she can't read my facial expression. Impatient, she'd tapped her gloved finger to her forehead, indicating that she desired a mind bridge in order to communicate.
I sighed and wove the spell, irritated at myself for opening my fat mandibles.
[Why are we stopping?] blunt as always.
[Just ah, sussing our the situation, making sure we don't stumble into any roaming monsters. Not exactly easy to scout whilst running at top speed now is it?] I deflected.
That caused her to raise one eyebrow in query.
[That was your top speed?] she asked.
running pace? When I get serious I am naught but a blur! The eyes of mere mortals are not enough
Pathetic.
boasting my façade cracks and I immediately come clean, all resistance shredded by those piercing
carefully flat, not mocking in anyway, which only makes
The fastest ant in the colony is Vibrant. I'm a distant second] I confess, no longer holding
fortune, she
had names. Do all of you have
I've handed out a few names here and there but certainly not to everyone in the colony. My name's Anthony by
grateful am I to be spared any mocking I hand over my name without even
learning the name
I shrugged my antennae.
are doing introductions, the giant bat faced ape
frame, rugged silver fur and potent fists speak with great clarity
had named your pets. Most don't from what I
don't really know what I'm doing with the two of them]
to look at
to communicate as you do? Using
I shake my head.
that allows mental communication with pets to chat with them, they don't exactly have pheromone glands built
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