Warm
Safe
Soft, not my silk.
...
My?
...
New
All this is new
...
Legs press, lifting from the soft silk.
I didn't make this.
...
I
...
Confusion, why am I now I, Me and My? This is new.
...
I skitter and scatter, so much silk, many webs worth, but tight.
It is strange, it is not new, but new to me.
...
New to Me? Everything is, these silk threads are woven tightly together. I could not make this, but someone did.
...Someone... The someone's who were trying to squash me?
Squash, end, kill... I tremble, I will stay away from them... but it looks like they dropped my new nest in a safe place... nobody has come to find it.
...
Fear, I... this is new... I was before, but not like this. I did not... I was not but was. I have no thoughts from before, everything is fuzzy. Food make me feel better.
...
Ok I'll go find some food and then I w...
Skitter
Climb
Web
Lurk
Catch
Wrap
Drag
...ill eat. AHHH
I wasn't... I stopped, I was gone... my legs were here, I left the soft silk nest and wove my web, then caught a big juicy meal... I am unsure why I dragged it back to here. But... I didn't... I wasn't in my body...
I shudder, I don't want to end. I think I am new.
Yes, that makes sense, part of me existed earlier... I remember the others trying to squish me. They were much larger than me. But then at some point, the old part of me, and the new part of me joined. The new part is the bit that noticed, the old part... is dumb?
Then why did the new part of me 'stop?' I went to get food and when I left the new part stopped and the old part... it did it. I didn't notice anything that happened... not until I came back to the ne...
The Nest. both parts exist inside the soft woven silk nest.
If you encounter this narrative on Amazon, note that it's taken without the author's consent. Report it.
Shudder
I... must find out. I will go out the other side of the soft nest... but leave the half eaten... half eaten? Oh I was eating it all this time. I still hunger, so old me should return if new me is... not here.
It is hard, but I step towards the edge, slowly and surely nothi...
Food
Oh... oh I was right... old me just came back to eat more. I shudder a little I only exist here... why... why do I exist here at all. Is it because of the big soft pink killers? The nest was on one of them, it must be. It is so strange to me, but they must have some manner of making new me's.
My memories don't recall much safety, I almost ended many many times. I could have avoided more if I was new me. I need to keep new me, but I don't know how. I don't want to end, either new or old me. Eat first, then I will try to figure it out.
Nom Ahhhh Delicious, let me suck up all this wondrous food.
Ok, food is done... I am going to try making the nest home. If it is home, then old me will come back. Then new me can set it up and care for it. First I must make defenses. First I weave the web in the middle. This will be where I rest, and where I hide, old me saw that we got knocked into a hole, so outside the soft nest is a hard nest of stone, but just a bit away is an opening. I am worried about things coming in, my old me wants to make webs high up, but if I am careful I think I can make the soft nest work.
So with a cocoon of webs forming a rest area at the top of the soft nest, I lead webs down the wall, all the way to the openings. I looked through memories, and I know the soft nest only has an opening, but it is folded over itself, so that the heavy woven webs open up more. It is too heavy to move, so I will not try. I have to make catching webs on the openings. I do one for the larges, then one for the next opening, and a final one for the third smallest opening.
Third? as in three. Whaaaaaat? I put out a stand, then another, and then a third strand. Why is it called a third... why do I know it is called a third... does another have another name? Yes, yes it's called second, and first is called first. I have others for other amounts... I am not sure what an amount is, but I know how many an amount is. The soft nest has three openings, that is a different word for third. I have put up webs on two, and I am just about to do the last. The first was called one, and two is the same as second... one more opening would be a fourth or four, I am unsure what another after that would be, but I know it is a thing.
This is great, old me could never think about this... old me is gonna be good now that new me is here. We just have to be careful so new me doesn't end.
Ok, I worked hard, and need rest, but the defense webs are done, I made two for each opening just in case. Old me would not have done that before. I am really hungry, I wonder why, I just made webs, I didn't go... oohs, I need food to make more webs.
I feel a bit silly, but I will be careful, I will get food soon, I don't need it too soon. Rest first. I climb up to my cocoon and fold my legs under me. I have more than four legs. Oh I have four on one side, and four on another. I am sure their is a word for that, but I have something at least.
----------------------------------------
Shudder
Oh, that wasn't me, what was that. Something... Oh something touched the soft nest from outside. Oh this isn't good, that was strong enough to move it. What am I... I feel it moving around the soft nest, looking for a way inside. I shiver a little and watch... it is going around to the small third entrance. It's big, too big, it just tried to push it's way in, but it couldn't fit. Now it's moving, but slower, I can feel that it was caught by some of my webs. Ok, well, I was hungry, and I can feel it approaching the second. It is bigger than me, probably three of me could fit inside it. I hope I am not food.
It is here, it moves into the first web, and with a bit of straining it breaks through. I can see it now, it's big, with a big horn and three legs on each side. It's seen me two and immediately charges into my third web. Oh it stops, I see, the first web it hit tangled up two legs, then the second tangled two more. All three seem like enough to catch it, go new me. Old me would be dead.
It's struggling, oh no, It just broke a few strands, I need to end it before it gets free. I jump down on top of it quickly and bite. But Ow, it has hard shell. I bite again and again, but it is too tough. Oh, it doesn't have a shell under it, or not as thick. Wrapping a thread to the shell I quickly I leap to the side. I have to dodge it's leg, it just got one free. I pull and pull and pull. It's so heavy, so big. I need to tip it... Yes, it tips over. I rush around the big thing and find it's underside. So much thinner, but still thick and hard. It takes two bites to break through. My mouth gets wet, like when I feed, and it thrashes and thrashes.
OW! it fell on top of me, Ow ow ow ow ow! Each squirm is painful as it hit me again and again. I need to get free, but it's starting to get it's legs free. I am going to end here aren't I. I don't want to end.
It stopped moving! Oh I did it, I ended it. I am so lucky.
Horned Beetle [0] Defeated. For defeating a creature ten times stronger than you, you have earned the title [Slayer]
Gained 5 Attribute points Nonsapient Autoallocation begun
[Error = Expected Integer not found] Intelligence is Greater than 5, auto-allocation cancelled
[Error = Trait = Mindless required auto-allocation] Recursive loop detected, [Mindless] trait upgraded - > [Mindless Body]
[You have unspent points remaining.]