Chrysalis

Chapter 1193

[Holy moly, Enid! Don’t scare me like that!]

[Don’t scare you like that?] Enid squawked. [You damn near killed an old woman, you buffoon! I thought my heart was going to stop….]

[I’m not that scary looking. Crinis says I’m very handsome.]

[You’re enormous! And purple! Your mandibles are the same size as my bed! You knew damn well you were going to take me by surprise hanging off the roof like that.]

The gigantic monster scratched itself on the head with one of those enormous antennae. As thick around as a man’s leg and as long as a house was wide. It didn’t feel like that long ago since Enid had last seen him, but Anthony had changed an enormous amount.

[Your last evolution really was a big change,] she said. [I can’t believe how different you look.]

For want of a better word, the ant preened, cleaning his antennae and shifting to bounce the light off his carapace.

[Well. I did put on a lot of size. Gotta boost that Might somehow.]

[It’s not just that. Step back a little, let me get a good look at you.]

[What?]

[Go on, back up.]

and paused, unsure,

metres long, and possibly eight tall, at her estimate.

it, darkening to black as it grew thicker. Light seemed to ripple

gripping tools she saw on the mages and healers. No, these were deadly weapons and they looked the part. Hooked at the ends, with barbs evenly spaced along the ends, they looked like they could punch through armour just as readily as

pretty much see the lines that separated them. Some were clearly larger than others too, which was interesting. His antennae were interesting as well. In the

awkward. You didn’t call me up here just to take a gander at my

let alone a mythic one before. I thought I should take a

aren’t dead yet,

[No thanks to you!]

sorry! Geez. Ah, the healers are

ants scurried into the chamber, five of them, rushing toward her and immediately

going

wave them away, but they ignored her, and

your doing, isn’t it?]

you checked out by the crew. We can’t have you dying on us, Enid. Not

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