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by arcanus » Tue May 19, 2009 8:48 am
The Sending jolted him awake, grubby hands scrambled around for his cigarettes.
Shaking he tapped the self-igniting end and drew the smoke into his lungs, muttering to himself he stumbled through the network of resin passages, occasionally stopping to admire a trapped form within the curious amber/papier-mâché secretions.
He finally arrived at the end of the tunnel, which opened out into the ceiling cavity of one of the main rooms of the subterranean power station.
His colleagues were there, all gathered around the table, the young wiper snapper, the mother and the warrior, the leader wasn’t back, this suggested something hadn’t gone according to plan.
For any normal metahuman the tunnels exit being some 40 feet above the ground would be a challenge, but ‘Thorax’ merely scurried out on all fours and crawled down the wall.
Immediately his children gave him visibility of the table, an assessment from three dozen different perspectives, his allies might think him a fool but they couldn’t ignore the Hive Mind of Ant.
As he arrived at the table, he noticed the warrior wrinkle his nose at the cigarette smoke,
The obese black woman spoke “Father hasn’t returned, the Mind can’t find him!†she boomed in a deep West African accent.
“I am the father†replied Thorax
The wiper snapper looked exasperated “No your Father Thorax!!â€
Thorax merely smiled and took another drag
“So†he replied exhaling
The rest looked at him in something of anger and shock
He mumbled to himself before responding “Look we’re not friends, just allies, listen to your Queens, if he’s dead we move on, that’s “
he descended into mumbling once again
“tough luck, its doesn’t alter the plan!â€
The group continued to talk, suggesting different strategies, in order to find the Father, carry on with their Queens goals, Thorax flicked his cigarette butt and lit another, with that he wandered off.