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.]

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 other had poured the liquid iron which would be carted away to mould into ingots. It was then that I caught the hatchling trying to

here, time to go meet a particular carver

on the young, I 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 tunnels and then beyond to the crafting

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

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

we need to move a

to drag the little one away in order to find the workshop of a particular carver who I'd promised I'd come and meet at some

doing, you metal head?" I

my massive frame looming over her workstation

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

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

for him," I tell her,

you know, not dead?! Would you rather be dead,

moment. Then another moment. Then a longer

think this long, moron!] I screech at him. [Just how low did

thumbs up, a wide, confident grin

at

how high

He raises two fingers.

lower than I left you with… but still kept it

turn back

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