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.]

Perhaps trying to sense vibrations in the rock? Either way I'm not a huge fan. Jim and I are using every technique we can to speed up our tunnel digging. He's biting and utilising his earth magic to its

in on

We can't be

found another tunnel,

phrasing given

[Agreed!]

more unsettled he becomes. Being a sheltered creature, not having to fight for so long, having his meals brought to him, it must have killed his edge. Although, judging from his history, this guy was never the most aggressive of monsters since his

together, Jim. We're gonna

[Right!]

be super 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 rushes into the

[We did it!]

[Get down, Jim!]

tunnel with Invidia close behind, my mandibles

CHOMP!

it falls to one side, twitching. Stupid

the hell was that?!] Jim

They're new. Stay alert, Jim! You're in the Dungeon now. What do you want to do? Try and hide

He hesitates.

go alone, I really don't,] I assure him, [I've got places to be and you'd rather hide, it's fine. I just

shudders for a moment as he

hide here, they'll be able to find me

[Let's go!]

HAZZOW! I'm off!

blast anything that looks like

[Yesssss.]

[Let's hustle!]

run isn't hard to come by. Invidia isn't the fastest, so I pile him onto my back

it might have been. This is the Dungeon after all. You

stumbled into earlier. Obviously not somewhere I'm keen to return to. Neither in the short term, nor ever, if I'm frank. Robbing the Lirians was a laugh but tussling with the Golgari is

Chomp! Chomp! Chomp!

reel from his dizzying mental attacks, are rebuffed by his

hustling. I think we're

be safe? I thought we were just trying

little suspicious, which I can't blame him for. As far as he knows, there isn't any safe place