It’s nice to have the full council around. How long has it been since I saw them all together in one place? Even Antionette and Victoriant are here, now majestic tier six queens, with huge gasters for generating many, high-quality eggs.
It’s actually the two Queens who speak up next.
“Things have been going well up there,” Antionette tells the Council. “We’ve expanded to over twenty antcademies, with satellite nests built around each of them in the second stratum. However, we are beginning to push against claimed territory.”
“Haven’t we taken a lot of ‘claimed territory’?” I ask.
“We have, but that was claimed by independent city states, which are now part of the Colony.”
Good for them.
“We are now brushing against parts of the Dungeon claimed by the major powers, and we don’t want to antagonise them.”
I mean… we could…. No, that’s probably a bad idea. Prosper in peace. This is the way.
“How are the… uh… former independent cities doing? They’ve come into the fold alright?”
“Well…” Victoriant shifts a little uncomfortably. “For the most part, yes, but the cities who were… persuaded… by the crusade…”
Good lord. What did those crazy priests do in there? Are those people suffering from trauma? Do they resent their ant overlords?
problem with them,
enthusiastic. Several of them were almost depopulated due to the residents volunteering
How the heck did that
So, things are going well up there, I guess. How about
the entire program right here with me. Theresant and Florence are in attendance, each of them resplendent, tier five Brood Tenders, emitting a
opens up, clacking her mandibles with obvious
uncovering what we believe to be the best
you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has
to learn, right?
ask them what they want to be, the first question they ask
Obviously, they’re ants.
You’ve got to push
this results in them trying to divide themselves up according to what they think the Colony
own path in life seems pointless when they can’t really be happy unless they feel like they’re contributing
the Brood Tenders handling things?
happening in the first and second stratum; with less new nests being built, we aren’t having to establish new antcademies or brood rearing chambers. So, things
get to tickle the grubs all day long! I’m so jealous! How
but how many students are we graduating each week? Or are the
all of the nests, we are graduating close to one hundred thousand
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