Chrysalis

[Worms are stupid.]

[I said I was sorry already…]

[They look disgusting and they eat dirt.]

[I know, okay? I know.]

[They're soft and don't have a carapace which makes them less shiny.]

[Not all ants are shiny! Only you are shiny!]

[Are you talking back to me?! Invidia, I think he's talking back to me!]

[Sssstrange. It should be shame.]

[Yeah, you're supposed to be shame! Aren't you, Jim?]

[… yes. I am shame. Can we PLEASE discuss this another time? Like, when we aren't being ACTIVELY chased?!]

[I suppose…]

As much as I enjoy reminding our resident worm that he and his entire species are massive failures who the world would most likely be better off without, we do have something of a situation on our claws. After we popped up outside those massive stone gates, we hightailed it back underground but it wasn't long before we started to sense signs that we were being followed.

Luckily, Jim was able to retrace the tunnel that I'd collapsed a lot faster than he could dig through solid rock, but we couldn't follow that all the way back, we'd just end up in the Shaper outpost that we'd started in. Which meant that we needed to dig our way into another Dungeon tunnel, a job for which we needed Jim's now suspect earth senses to try and find.

[Look, I found a tunnel, didn't I?]

[Just not the right one…]

[I was close!]

[Close to a city full of Golgari…]

[I'll be quiet.]

every technique we can to speed up our tunnel digging. He's biting and utilising his earth magic to its limits as I do the same from

homing in on us or are we getting further away? I

We can't

I've found another tunnel, probably… twenty metres

given the

[Agreed!]

to fight for so long, having his meals brought to him, it must

Jim.

[Right!]

great if I could not have worm butt in my face sometime soon, I'm well over it. It takes a couple of minutes for us to drill our way through and with a joyous cry, Jim

[We did it!]

[Get down, Jim!]

blast out of the tunnel with Invidia close behind, my

CHOMP!

as my jaws shear it apart and it falls to one side, twitching. Stupid centipedes! They

hell was

in the Dungeon now. What do you want to

He hesitates.

care if you want to go alone, I really don't,] I assure him, [I've got places

worm shudders for a moment as he

with you. I'm still too close to try and hide here, they'll be

[Let's go!]

HAZZOW! I'm off!

to blast anything that looks like it's

[Yesssss.]

[Let's hustle!]

so I

have been. This is the Dungeon after all. You can't get far without running into monsters, a hazard which Jim isn't the best qualified to deal with. So it falls to Invidia and I to tear into the creatures that try to prevent us from

not somewhere I'm keen to return to. Neither

Chomp! Chomp! Chomp!

the difference as my enemies reel from his dizzying mental attacks, are rebuffed by his shields or straight up detonated by his explosions. The support caster I always wanted is finally

way, Jim! Keep hustling. I think we're

be safe? I thought we were just trying

blame him for. As far as