Justitia wakes up with webs clinging to her wings, multiple of the spiders decided to make a small nest on the spot where Justitia decided to sleep, using her as a comfortable pillow. Justitia has never slept before, the feeling of losing consciousness should unnerve her, but she actually feels invigorated. She decides that sleep is nice, and finds happiness in the righteous spiders joining her in sleeping. She did feel slightly wary at having slept out in the open, vulnerable to potential attacks by sinners, but the righteous would never harm her. This is a safe place for her now.
Walking around, she sees many cocooned sinners being stored. Vaguely remembering that those same cocoons used to struggle just the night before. This is how the righteous eat? She walks up to one of the cocoons, and sees a spider feeding off it. Seeing that the [Angel] is interested in the spoils of victory, the spider leaves a spot open for Justitia. She attempts to mimic the spider by biting into the cocoon, but gets a mouth full of digestive acids instead. She has found it! The low standard nutrition! Truly, the righteous are conservative with their resources if they eat this.
Justitia is not of the righteous however, she has already eaten the foods of sinners before. Does this make her a sinner? No. Preposterous, she could not be a sinner. She destroys it. Sadly, the fact remains that the food of the righteous is not compatible with her, the half-digested sinner dribbling from her chin does NOT taste very good, no matter how much Justitia tries to eat the small bits left. She will just have to scavenge for some other foods for now.
Justitia moves to a set of burned out buildings, the fire having petered out some time ago. The building is crawling with spiders, and a few rush up to her, and climb on her. While she doesn't know why they do this, she does not need to know why the righteous act. Only when an act is sinful. Getting closer, Justitia sees that the spiders were constructing a home for themselves in the burned out building. Webs are scattered throughout, and nooks and crannies already have some eggs in them. The spiders seem to excitedly crawl around the various constructions as Justitia inspects them, and one of them brings an egg to her. Pointing her scales at the egg, she is informed of true bliss.
[You judge the [Hive Spider Egg] using the scales! This entity is free of sin.]
Justitia pats the spider on the carapace, it did good at making this little one. The spider scurries off with the egg in tow, and the others move around in excitement as well. This is Justitia's first time inside someone's house. She decides this is a novel experience, and didn't know that inhabitants enjoyed showing their accomplishments to visitors this much. She is happy that the righteous are happy, and moves on to the next area after complimenting the construction skills of the spiders inside their home.
Justitia finds herself at the gate of the former settlement, and sees a large gathering of spiders moving into it. One massive spider catches her attention, and the spider moves towards her. Justitia makes eye contact with all eight eyes, while the spider finds no eyes to make contact with. Both parties stare at each other for a small while, until Justitia slowly raises her scales at the spider. Something about this spider makes her think it does not lack moral agency.
[A facade has been broken! [Hive Spider Queen] is revealed to be [Hive Spider Genestealer Anomaly]!]
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[You judge the [Hive Spider Genestealer Anomaly] using the scales! This entity has diplomatic immunity as the representative of an alien race. It cannot be guilty of any crimes.]
The tension that Justitia didn't even know was there drops, and the large spider pokes the [Angel] a few times. Both parties find themselves satisfied with the outcome, and start inspecting each other. The spider inspects the wings, finding them to be softer than her finest silk, while Justitia inspects the carapace, finding it to be tougher than her skin. The spiders crawling over Justitia also do their own inspecting, feeling much more free to do so as their queen has effectively given her permission. As both parties end their inspection of the other party, Justitia feels the need to something.
She is speaking to a representative of an alien race, a queen at that. She is currently located within the settlement belonging to it, as Justitia hasn't laid claim to it. Justitia decides to give a small bow to the spider, and the spider seems to reciprocate it by tilting its body forward ever so slightly.
Justitia and the queen depart in different directions, satisfied with how the interaction has gone. This was Justitia's first actual social interaction. She would have to wait for others to be able to give an opinion of it, but while she felt as nervous in the moment as when she found sinners, the aftermath has left her feeling happier than when she drank the fizzy drink. Could she get better with social interactions over time? Could they completely replace her need for nutrition?
She doesn't think the last thought is correct, and moves toward the barracks to find some food. Inside of it, she finds spiders in the progress of turning the place more homey, and the weapons have been taken from the place. Justitia didn't leave much to eat for the little spiders, as most of the guards were turned into featureless sinless ash by her blade. What do the little ones want with the weapons of the sinners? Justitia doesn't know, but she finds it difficult to care about it when she finds some snacks in the drawers next to the bed.
One of them is a bar wrapped like the ration bar yesterday, but this one has the word 'choco' on the wrapper. She also finds a bag of colorful little animals, a ham sandwich in a plastic bag, and a well hidden glass bottle of 'Heinken'. Eating the ham sandwich on the spot, Justitia looks at the colorful little... bears? She thinks they are bears. Truly, that sinners make food in the shape of other possibly innocent beings is deplorable, they must take a sick enjoyment from eating others. Justitia almost thinks of leaving the bag of evil, but decides against it after eating one herself.
They are tasty, and she will punish the sinners by eating all the tasty things. Scavenging some more things that seem tasty from the barracks, Justitia moves to the room the 2 awake sinners came from. A small gray box with a stick sit at a table, and a voice can be heard coming from it. An ally of these sinners, perhaps? Or a declaration of war on this former sinner camp for their crimes against the U.N.E.?
"Ostkampf, come in. Ostkampf do you copy? Lost reinforcements are heading your way to deal with the mutant threat in the east, we need your confirmation on housing troops. Ostkampf, respond." Justitia doesn't know what to say, or what to think. The voice on the other side sounds somewhat distressed, could she help them somehow? Justitia grabs the microphone, and holds it up to her mouth.
"This is Ostkampf, the sinners have been driven out of this place, you can rest easy now." Justitia has the voice of an angel, but such nice things don't exist in this world. The man on the radio immediately responds with suspicion.
"Sinners? What are you on about? The mutant threat wasn't close enough that... who is this? Who am I speaking to?" The voice of the man grows increasingly frantic, Justitia decides to respond as according to protocol.
"This is corporal Justitia of the U.N.E., this settlement has been purged of sinner influence, be not afraid." Justitia hopes to de-escalate the situation, but her attempts are forfeit.
"Shit!" The man hangs up, and Justitia can certainly say that this was one of the less nice social interactions. She preferred the big spider's poking and prodding.