Chrysalis

Chapter 786

"Explain to me please, why you would ever think that sticking your head into a blast furnace would be a good idea?" I demanded of the hatchling, still dangling from one of Crinis' tentacles.

"I wanted to see what it looked like inside!" she protests.

"Inside? Inside is nothing but fire, superheated gas and liquid metal!"

"REALLY?!" she goggles at me. "Sounds awesome!"

"Yes," I nod sagely, "it IS awesome. It will also melt your face off and you will be dead."

"And that's…. Bad?" she asks.

My mandibles clack together slowly.

"Do you need more time out?"

"… I do not."

"Then tell me that it would be bad if you died."

"It would be bad if I died."

"Good."

[Put her down Crinis.]

had indeed been amazing. Six mage ants had surrounded the base of the huge metal construction, lined with bricks, reinforced stone and enchanted on the inside to resist the insane temperatures. When it came time to heat it, the mages had poured great torrents of

had poured

to go meet a particular carver and say

the huge furnace area, picking my way between the many rows of smelters, furnaces and tracks for bins laden with ore as we

reverberations of steel on steel. Nestled throughout these tunnels are the many workshops of the Colony, producing the various goods required by the ants and our allies. There's delicate work being done, fine wires of various metals intertwined and experimented on to see how well they handle delicate enchantments, as well as more massive projects, like gates for the new

hatchling stares at it all with wide eyes, rushing this way and that to inspect every ant at work and see what they might be up to, asking questions and generally being a pest. I tolerate it for a little while, but we have a schedule to keep and there's someone

on then, we need

to find the workshop of a particular carver who I'd promised I'd come and meet at some point after I'd evolved. I find the insane ant

you doing, you metal

frame looming over her workstation and clacks her mandibles

forward to your visit for a long time! And Tiny! Welcome back, my most successful customer! How did you like that armour I made for you, eh? I heard it worked

explain what she wants. Just looking at the bland expression on his face, I can tell he's not that interested in getting his

to remake it for him," I tell her, giving

alive. As in, you know, not dead?! Would you rather be dead,

a moment. Then another moment.

screech at him. [Just how low did you

a thumbs up, a wide, confident grin splitting

at him

high is it

He raises two fingers.

reduced lower than I left you with… but still kept it above the minimum I set… If it means two, we are going to have

turn back to

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