Mated to the Alpha and His Beta

Chapter 374

Chapter 374
Zane
Spider shifters?
“I’m not a shifter.” The spider laughed again. Now it was the size of a cantaloupe, which thankfully seemed about as big as it was going to get. It looked me over with its eight sparkling eyes and waved one long front leg at me. “Just an enclavian spider.”
“You read my mind?”
“I could see the horror all over your face,” she said.
“But yes, I read it. A little. You were sending very loudly. It’s a bit rude to invade someone’s thoughts, so we spiders generally only do it amongst ourselves. I do want to reassure you, though, I am not a shifter.”
I still took a step back and looked around the stairwell for any signs there might be more potentially giant spiders. “I’m Zane.”
“I’m Bellissa. I’ve heard of you. We all have. The wolves who came to Brightsky with Malachi’s granddaughter. Welcome.”
“Thanks.” This was kind of awkward.
“Out exploring are you?” Bellissa waved her leg again
“Are you looking for Greyson? Sorry. That was a bit rude. You’re just sending so loudly, it’s difficult not to
receive.”

“I guess I am?” I said. “I mean, I was just kind of wandering around. Getting the lay of the land, so to
speak.”
The spider dangled lightly from a thin string of webbing that attached itself to a high-up corner. She spun gently in the breeze from a nearby ventilation duct. “It’s always good to understand where you are…
Would you like me to find Greyson for you? I can put out a call to my friends.”
“Uh…” I looked up the stairs and then down again. I could spend the day wandering around without any purpose, or I could hang out with Greyson, assuming this spider could help me find him. “Sure.”
She let out another tinkle of that light laughter and said after a second, “Oh, he’s far, far down in the pearl
fields.”
“In the what, now?”
“The underground lakes in the caverns that the enclave was built over,” Bellissa explained cheerfully, pointing with one leg to the stairs going down. “Some of them house fish, while others grow edible water plants. And of course the clams and mussels provide food for the ducks and chickens on the farm level, and the pearls are sold to wealthy human collectors so the enclave has income. This entire complex was designed
to be self-sustaining.”
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“For safety?”
“In the event of an attack, especially a siege, yes. But generally, also in case that its residents determine there’s a need to completely go underground. Not just physically; I mean if the leadership council feels like it’s imperative for us all to withdraw from the world.
Hide for any indeterminate amount of time.”
“Why would they decide that?”
She waved both her front legs. “I suppose if there seemed to be some kind of natural local or global disaster. I’ve heard stories about an enclave-”
“This one?”
“No, an older one.”
“How many are there?”
Bellissa swayed lightly. “I don’t know, really.
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