Chrysalis

Chapter 719

The voices are back again. In fact, I'd say they're even stronger than before. There's so damn many of them! When hundreds of thousands of voices are whispering at you, it's no longer a quiet sound, it’s a roar, powerful enough to drown out my own thoughts if I'm not careful. Each entity, each soul, is like a single drop of water, a coalesced portion of Will that slips through the ether and into the Vestibule in a way that I don't understand. From there they sink deep into my consciousness, running together and gathering momentum until a raging torrent is formed, a whirlpool of thoughts, feelings and desires that threatens to sweep me away.

But I'm not afraid. Even in this half-dream, half-awake state I understand a simple truth: my family will not harm me. In all of their wishes, hopes and ambitions, there are none that desire for me to come to harm. Their support surrounds me like a storm, but also a blanket. As I gradually return to wakefulness, I start to wonder what it was that caused this change.

Is this simply the clarity of the new Vestibule? Is it transmitting the Will of the Colony to me the same as it always did, but stronger? Or is the new addition, the Communal Spirit Nave, to blame? I thought all it would do is magnify the regeneration I received from the energy the Vestibule provides, but perhaps it also has the effect of magnifying the slivers of Will that come from the Colony to me? I'm not sure, and even if I were, there isn't much I could do to change the situation. This is something that I have become determined to grow used to, so that's what I'm going to do. No more running away.

The senses of my body come back to me piece by piece and with the return of these more mundane sensations, the whispers begin to fade to the background, receding until nothing remains but a dull roar that bleeds into my soul.

"WAPPACHAAA!" I'm up!

With my exclamation, I spring to life and the waiting pets around me react to my awakening in their own manner. Tiny sees that I've risen and falls back onto his backside, already preparing to settle into a seemingly long anticipated nap. Before I can even finish shaking the lethargy out of my legs, he's already snoring loudly in the corner. Lazy ape. For her part, Crinis is much happier to see me.

[Master! You've awoken!]

How've things been whilst

have disturbed

word from outside the nest? No problems with the

major developments, but if there were it's unlikely that we would be told. We wouldn't leave your side no matter what was

over me after all. No longer restricted to keeping watch over me, Crinis all too happily detaches her dark shadowy form from the wall where she had been clinging and latches onto my carapace, blobbing around my abdomen like rubbery coating

What do you

can sense that your power has greatly increased, Master. Surely there

but I don't

[Hey Invidia, how're things?]

all the goings on with his lidless eye from near the entrance to the chamber. At my words he dips and bobbles in the air for a moment before

is complete. I sennsssse your mind is no longer quite

eyeball flash green

not able to keep up with your

really discussed his envious nature with the demon, but it does seem to be a little inconvenient. He seems to be caught in a state of perpetual want for things he sees others have. Can't exactly be a very satisfying way to live… Maybe that's just part of

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