Formicea Chapter 23

We head back inside this newly built base, surrounded by an always growing amount of new tunnels and halls.

Whatever Liseti tells , this place was created to keep an army ready to fight whenever it's necessary.

The question is just if I'm being paranoid or if she lied to .

Well, in the end, I enter a new hall that forms so kind of plaza and find the person in question.

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A nurse cos to her she takes sothing and then she throws it to .

A stick?

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I know she doesn't want to bully and this is for my benefit, yet she is quite rough.

The next two hours I get battered up.

It's the first ti that I'm halfway thankful for a carapace that protects from greater harm.

I an at the speed and force Liseti applies she has the nurses bringing her again and again new sticks to replace those she broke.

On my body that is.

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Hard to believe as relentlessly she strikes .

On the other side, I don't grow as exhausted as I thought.

With dread, I think about my "energy storage" and that it possibly keeps going.

Also, maybe I grew stronger.

With ti so of the sticks break because of my deflective moves.

I am not sure if I could have broken them like this before.

Yet now I'm looking quite battered.

Literally.

She's really strict with and doesn't allow any slip-ups.

After another hour I'm totally finished.

I think I've got a little better, but you won't beco a master fighter after just one session.

To think like this is just stupid.

However...

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Now I understand!

Shit!

My brother is here! What shall I do?

I need to act fast before anything happens and look for my brother.

I stare in shock when I find him playing with a hunter.

"Toris!!!" (E)

"Sister?" (T)

"What are you doing there?! (E)

"I played! You said I can!" (T)

"But not with those! They are dangerous!" (E)

"You said they are friendly!" (T)

"They... The smaller ones are more like dogs. Mum and dad wouldn't allow you to approach those you don't know, right? You cannot do this!" (E)

I glare at the workers, who should have kept him away from any danger and failed miserably!

They don't seem to understand my gesture, but beco distressed at the scent which conveys my displeasure I think.

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The insect speech might be troubling for my brother.

But I won't say that hearable for my brother.