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rambow_chemicalxAlthough your city is awfully exciting, you've always liked expeditions underground the best and are happy to turn your attentions there for a little while. There's always a comfort in knowing that you don't need to keep yourself from getting so caught up in a discovery that you don't notice time passing, because you won't suddenly find yourself burning in the sun.
Unfortunately, for a good long while this looks like nothing more than just empty caves. Nepeta might be interested if she ever feels like moving into a larger home, but uninteresting aside from that. But just when you're willing to give up on finding anything interesting, you make the most incredible discovery of your career.
"Oh my goodness, Equius," you say, crouching down beside a large cocoon attached to a stalagmite. "Equius, we're near the brooding chambers. I can't believe it; this must have been one of the very first wigglers laid after the world was restored to be metamorphosing already."
"Aradia, you should move away from there," he said, looking clearly uncomfortable. "You would not want to disturb it."
"It's fine," you say, waving off his concern. It's such an amazing thing; the threads wigglers spin to form their cocoons are one of the only bodily secretions your kind make that aren't colored the same shade as your blood. The child within could be from any rung of the hemospectrum, any fate from the lowest to the highest could be waiting for it and you wouldn't be able to tell.
Of course, hopefully it wouldn't be long before the attitudes of the world were changed enough that anyone could reach the highest peaks of society.
You're gently brushing your fingers against the surface of the cocoon when suddenly something pushes back, a small hand gradually working its way out to grab at your fingers while you stand frozen. Behind your Equius gasps.
"Aradia! We must have frightened away the lusus which chose it when we arrived. We must find it before it emerges!"
"Must we really?" you ask, brushing your thumb across the tiny fingers that clutch at you. It couldn't hurt to stay just a little longer and see what happens, could it? There should still be time before you need to get away before it can see you.
You can:
Search for the lusus.
or Stay where you are.
Unfortunately, for a good long while this looks like nothing more than just empty caves. Nepeta might be interested if she ever feels like moving into a larger home, but uninteresting aside from that. But just when you're willing to give up on finding anything interesting, you make the most incredible discovery of your career.
"Oh my goodness, Equius," you say, crouching down beside a large cocoon attached to a stalagmite. "Equius, we're near the brooding chambers. I can't believe it; this must have been one of the very first wigglers laid after the world was restored to be metamorphosing already."
"Aradia, you should move away from there," he said, looking clearly uncomfortable. "You would not want to disturb it."
"It's fine," you say, waving off his concern. It's such an amazing thing; the threads wigglers spin to form their cocoons are one of the only bodily secretions your kind make that aren't colored the same shade as your blood. The child within could be from any rung of the hemospectrum, any fate from the lowest to the highest could be waiting for it and you wouldn't be able to tell.
Of course, hopefully it wouldn't be long before the attitudes of the world were changed enough that anyone could reach the highest peaks of society.
You're gently brushing your fingers against the surface of the cocoon when suddenly something pushes back, a small hand gradually working its way out to grab at your fingers while you stand frozen. Behind your Equius gasps.
"Aradia! We must have frightened away the lusus which chose it when we arrived. We must find it before it emerges!"
"Must we really?" you ask, brushing your thumb across the tiny fingers that clutch at you. It couldn't hurt to stay just a little longer and see what happens, could it? There should still be time before you need to get away before it can see you.
You can:
Search for the lusus.
or Stay where you are.
