Announcent This is a little side story about Erys' first days in the hive from Kyska's perspective. If you're not interested it's absolutely fine to ignore it. Then you can just skip this and proceed with the normal chapters.
Kyska's diary
(from the pheromone pots of the chamber of knowledge)
It happened!
It truly happened!
I was just assigned to a new position!
From today on I won't tend to the brood anymore.
It makes a little sad to leave the little ones like this.
It might not be too deep of a bond, but certainly, there was a connection while I helped to raise the larvae.
Yet instead...
I am going to serve a princess as her personal nurse!!!
No greater honor could exist for a nurse like !
One could even say it is the most important occupation that exists within the swarm!
It doesn't matter how many fiends a guardian slays, how great the efforts of a single worker are, how fast a ssenger pursues their tasks, or how grand the knowledge a scholar accumulates becos.
This all pales against the importance of a single princess!
The countless offsprings she will bring into existence are ultimately the absolute center the swarm is built on.
These blessings of life are the greatest acts to contribute to the whole.
And like this, those of a nurse who is responsible for her health.
Yet it's a little strange.
I didn't know about a newly created princess.
Our numbers are stable and perfectly balanced with the amount of food we harvest.
And for so reason, the scholars are involved here.
It seems the order for my assignnt ca from them.
However, the scholars are the direct subordinates of the queen.
And that ans the order ca from her.
I'm not supposed to have even the slightest doubt here!
Maybe the queen is simply occupied.
It could be linked to the current uproar because of the most recent discovery of our patrols.
The involved drones truly found that there is a wide vacant space above us.
It ca to be known as the surface.
Completely different rules apply to this new realm.
With strange new environnts and hostile lifeforms.
Maybe we need for that reason greater numbers, to expand to this dangerous environnt.
But no matter what happens, the swarm will prevail.
I have settled at the assigned location.
It seems this place will be the quarter of my princess.
Apparently, it was just recently established here, so the accommodations are lacking due to a shortage of ti.
This is strange.
Such a treatnt for a princess is absolutely unacceptable.
Yet this isn't what worries .
Despite the general lack, I have more than enough resources here to get by.
What troubles was that a scholar ca directly to .
To a nurse!
And he said that sothing is uncommon with my princess.
And that she is going through a thorough tamorphosis to build out all the princess-specific features.
I have to pay strict attention to this and tend to her respectively.
What could be wrong with her?
No, no!
I haven't even seen her and am already getting flustered.
Even if sothing is wrong with her I'll have to make up for it.
After all, she is my princess, I'm assigned to.
My princess...
I was told she would be brought here soon.
Again I am a little agitated.
Maybe I snapped for a mont.
It seems she isn't conscious yet.
And so she will be brought by workers.
Workers!
I know that so kind of transport has to comnce, but workers are rough and lack the sensibility which is required to tend to such a delicate being as a princess.
Nonetheless, all I can do for now is to wait for her.
But it seems she won't be able to take charge of her quarters anyti soon.
So I at least have to seize enough of the resources to provide for her.
It might be uncommon, to strain my competencies like this, yet a personal nurse running errands for her princess isn't.
So I definitely have the authority to do so.
And didn't they say she is uncommon?
Oh, there they co!
(Kyska)
.
.
.
Fine, what is this?
The workers who brought her left this creature just like this on the ground.
I... I don't know what to make out of this.
There is this scent.
It definitely tells she is a princess.
But aside from that?
I wouldn't even recognize this being as my species if not for the scent.
To be precise, I couldn't link it to any known creature in my world.
Maybe I should summarize.
First, it lacks so appendages one would expect from a mber of our species, and this is apparently not due to an injury.
Then, it looks strange, as it has a much lighter color on its surface than anything I am used to, yet she is no albino, that I'm sure about.
While I am at the surface.
It is... soft.
Really soft!
The whole body of this being is covered by an extrely squishy mbrane, if not for a foreign layer that isn't even attached to the body.
I touched it for a mont.
This is so strange!
How can this be enough to survive anything?
She is like the larvae before their third stage.
Could this be the answer?
But no!
She is by far too large for that to be the case.
Yet this delicate.
To be honest, I am afraid to touch her any more than this, worrying it could cause harm.
There are even so discolorations on her surface.
And I fear that these might be damages.
Probably inflicted by these vexed workers on my princess.
Even more concerning, during the touch, I noticed how much heat she emits.
This might be the ongoing tamorphosis, yet with how out of the unordinary she is there might be issues with that.
But what I found most troubleso was that she has no ovipositor.
This one trait is essential for a princess!
In my worry, I searched for it.
When I concentrated on the place where it would usually be located I think I perceived sothing.
The heat was greater there and I believe there was so kind of shifting happening under the surface.
Perhaps I am witnessing a true miracle right now.
The forming of an ovipositor!
Yet this softness is definitely an issue.
I am not even sure if it's okay to ever let her leave her quarters as vulnerable as she seems to be.
At the very least, the cleaning procedures will have to be adjusted.
For now, I brought her with the help of so common nurses, assigned to the quarters, to her alcove where she can recuperate.
Her sleep is troubled right now as it seems much is changing inside her.
For such a soft being this must be a huge burden.
I an, considering how she is she cannot be used to any physical hardships.
I feel dejected seeing her like this.
Despite the strange looks, this being is my princess.
And if I am honest, her sleeping looks are so innocent and truly benign.
I couldn't believe that such a creature could bring harm to anyone.
And this makes it so much more difficult.
There is truly an abundance of issues present so that I am not sure if she can overco them all.
But I will give all I have to offer.
For her!
For my princess!
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