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.]

construction, lined with bricks, reinforced stone and enchanted on the inside to resist the insane temperatures. When it came time to

one side of the base had poured the slag, a molten slurry of impurities that had bonded to the limestone, and out the other had poured the liquid iron which would be carted away

here, time to go meet a particular carver

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 we walk into the

my antennae as we 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 intertwined and experimented on to see how well

and see what they might be up to, asking questions and generally being a pest. I tolerate

then, we need to move a

promised I'd come and meet at some point after

are you doing, you metal head?" I

to see my massive frame looming over her workstation and clacks her mandibles

you like that armour I made for you, eh? I heard it

I explain what she wants. Just looking at the bland expression

to remake it for him," I tell her,

in, you know, not dead?! Would

ponders for a moment. Then another

did you take

and gives me a thumbs up, a

at

how high is it

He raises two fingers.

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

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