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.]

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 blue flame into openings designed to

of impurities that had bonded to the limestone, and out the other had poured the liquid iron which would

to go meet a particular

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

enter, the tunnels around us alive with the 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

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

then, we need to

one away in order 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 hard

you doing, you metal head?"

turns to see my massive frame looming over

for a long time! And Tiny! Welcome back, my most successful customer! How did you like that armour I

excitement but I'm getting massive waves of 'meh' energy from Tiny once I explain what she wants. Just looking at the bland expression on his face, I can tell he's not that interested

excited for you to remake it for him," I tell her,

not dead?! Would you rather be dead, or

moment. Then another

moron!] I screech at him. [Just how low did you take your intelligence on this

me a thumbs up, a wide, confident grin

at him

how high is

He raises two fingers.

reduced lower than I left you with… but still kept it above the minimum I set… If it

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