Chapter 76: 75: Janetta Sewell
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Unknown POV
Once again I begin to question my very existence as I watched my Kin move around this little kingdom we call home. We stay in what the light skinned or should I say Humans call a cavern, the outer parts along with several other parts of this place suddenly began to produce this strange shiny rocks and filled us with energy.
So we began to grow, we used this rocks to build our home on the roof of the cavern, From below it looked more like cl.u.s.ters of crystals and rocks, but when your like us who could climb across walls and step on roofs like the flat ground below, then it all makes sense.
With The palace at the very center overlooking the rest, and it's many pointed structures built like towers giving it the look of an eccentric crown. Most us were either servants or soldiers, well you could say almost everyone.
The other class of us spider folk were those who were able to evolve into Elites and to do so, is like scaling the sky even though I have never seen one, only memories.
Our kind has never been a favored race, To evolve depended on luck, as the rules placed on us were rather troublesome because of our nature.
When one is ready to evolve, they needed to go hunt for a prey with some measure of intelligence, we then feast on them while triggering our evolution process in order to assimilate the creatures memories to increase our own intelligence and genes. The one youo take determines the kind of elite you become.
For example, most of the elites who managed to evolve recently were only able to find the little green creatures, they all ended up as guards for the palace but I was lucky or should I say unlucky?.
During my time, I had been able to assimilate the memories of human, granting me intelligence that rivalled even mother's. This made me a queen candidate automatically and granted me the Sewell family name, but I was not alone, there were twenty three others like me but only four lived through the years. Some I killed while some were killed by the other living candidates. Each of us unlocked an ability at the time of Evolution and mine sometimes allow me to view the interior of other creatures troubled lives, and the exposure of these secrets usually allows me get to understand them better in whatever I was planning. But, as The Apostle in that human's memory said, "we see in part, and know in part"... Luckily, it has been what kept me alive for as long as I could remember.
Unfortunately, this assimilation is not without any problems, sometimes you lose your personality, if I ever had one, In all, something must be lost, like Zessa who has been unable to turn back to our spider form, too bad Selliqei killed her, Perhaps all this should fill me with guilt and shame like the memories I got made me understand, but it doesn't. Deep down, We're the same beings we were thousands of years ago, even though we have evolved to live in small groups of kith and kin after years of running from other spider folk or abominable creatures. We aren't wired to care, no matter how the dying queen pretends to, I know deep down, if she had to chance to sacrifice us to live longer, she would. I'm not unkind, but this world is set up like that.
Now the one with the highest chances to become the next Queen is Selliqei Sewell, the thoughtless, whimsical, tyrannical, dictator, quarrelsome, glum, teasing, heartless, sour, bully, antisocial, crazy, ill tempered, almost mad queen candidate. She would definitely kill the rest of us soon, I have to get rid of her even though I don't wish for the throne, I know it's the only way for me to evolve but I can't imagine myself, stuck in one place with nothing to do besides giving birth to thousands upon thousands, only to watch them kill each other over and over again, even then the possibility of dying like that is...No there has to be another way to evolve in the outside world, perhaps with the other spider folk.
Fortune favors the bold, no matter how dangerous the elders claim the outside world is, I have to see for myself.
But now Selliqei, should be taken care of, The worst flaw anyone can have is that of self-deception.
Selliqei is like that, makes me wonder the kind of creature she assimilated with. She acted on impulse and then created the reason for her actions after the fact. If she was feeling good he did good(bad) things, if she was feeling negative in any way she still did bad things. she felt like her 'good' deeds meant she was a 'good' person of some kind and her bad deeds were justified. In truth she never thought before she acted or spoke, she never stopped to ask herself if her response was the right one. Whatever she said was almost never true, or at least it was only "true" for her. That's why this kingdom will fall apart if she becomes queen, I doubt she understands the responsibility of being the queen and what it entails, She just wants the power that comes along with the title.
"Janetta!!" someone called my name, when I turned to look, I found that it was an Elite guard from the palace, I watched him solemnly as you can never be to careful this days, "What is it?".
"The queen is dead..." He said warily and as if to confirm his words, all Spider folk suddenly felt inexplicable sadness as they all began to cry out and wail but my mind was already filled with worry.
'What will become of us?'
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Grey eye tribe,
Far west of White Mountain,
Durzol Greyeye's POV
A string of curses unraveled from my father's tongue, like yarn unfurling, he advanced to his lord's manor as his greenish grey skin that had long been enchanted by the shaman, shimmered lightly with hot anger within his dark, cold eyes. Every step he took rattled his bone necklace and struck my heart.
He tried control his anger but, I'm sure the death of Malu was like a slap to his face, the yells and hisses of the creatures around, all seemed inaudible to me right now as I was struck down by a massive pressure. All I could do is feel, Feel the cold ground pressed against my form, the heat from the pain, and the sound of my heart beating like a war drum that would signal my end. 'would father kill me?'.
His eyes exposed his inner struggles, and I prayed to my ancestors to protect me at this time, or for the to accept me and take me home. I closed my eyes waiting for the pain but...
"Get up Durzol, curse be the day, I kill my own blood...Blood horn tribe, good, good, good. I'm not angry at you, Durzol, but I am at myself, I should have expected this." Father said as he managed to control his anger.
Quickly I stood up and so did the others who had fallen like me, but I once again went on my knees and said, "what would you have me do father?".
____________________________________________________________
At the same time,
Black moon town,
Mine Entrance,
"Lets us go!!" Alex's voice boomed as he stepped into the Mines.
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Unknown POV
Once again I begin to question my very existence as I watched my Kin move around this little kingdom we call home. We stay in what the light skinned or should I say Humans call a cavern, the outer parts along with several other parts of this place suddenly began to produce this strange shiny rocks and filled us with energy.
So we began to grow, we used this rocks to build our home on the roof of the cavern, From below it looked more like cl.u.s.ters of crystals and rocks, but when your like us who could climb across walls and step on roofs like the flat ground below, then it all makes sense.
With The palace at the very center overlooking the rest, and it's many pointed structures built like towers giving it the look of an eccentric crown. Most us were either servants or soldiers, well you could say almost everyone.
The other class of us spider folk were those who were able to evolve into Elites and to do so, is like scaling the sky even though I have never seen one, only memories.
Our kind has never been a favored race, To evolve depended on luck, as the rules placed on us were rather troublesome because of our nature.
When one is ready to evolve, they needed to go hunt for a prey with some measure of intelligence, we then feast on them while triggering our evolution process in order to assimilate the creatures memories to increase our own intelligence and genes. The one youo take determines the kind of elite you become.
For example, most of the elites who managed to evolve recently were only able to find the little green creatures, they all ended up as guards for the palace but I was lucky or should I say unlucky?.
During my time, I had been able to assimilate the memories of human, granting me intelligence that rivalled even mother's. This made me a queen candidate automatically and granted me the Sewell family name, but I was not alone, there were twenty three others like me but only four lived through the years. Some I killed while some were killed by the other living candidates. Each of us unlocked an ability at the time of Evolution and mine sometimes allow me to view the interior of other creatures troubled lives, and the exposure of these secrets usually allows me get to understand them better in whatever I was planning. But, as The Apostle in that human's memory said, "we see in part, and know in part"... Luckily, it has been what kept me alive for as long as I could remember.
Unfortunately, this assimilation is not without any problems, sometimes you lose your personality, if I ever had one, In all, something must be lost, like Zessa who has been unable to turn back to our spider form, too bad Selliqei killed her, Perhaps all this should fill me with guilt and shame like the memories I got made me understand, but it doesn't. Deep down, We're the same beings we were thousands of years ago, even though we have evolved to live in small groups of kith and kin after years of running from other spider folk or abominable creatures. We aren't wired to care, no matter how the dying queen pretends to, I know deep down, if she had to chance to sacrifice us to live longer, she would. I'm not unkind, but this world is set up like that.
Now the one with the highest chances to become the next Queen is Selliqei Sewell, the thoughtless, whimsical, tyrannical, dictator, quarrelsome, glum, teasing, heartless, sour, bully, antisocial, crazy, ill tempered, almost mad queen candidate. She would definitely kill the rest of us soon, I have to get rid of her even though I don't wish for the throne, I know it's the only way for me to evolve but I can't imagine myself, stuck in one place with nothing to do besides giving birth to thousands upon thousands, only to watch them kill each other over and over again, even then the possibility of dying like that is...No there has to be another way to evolve in the outside world, perhaps with the other spider folk.
Fortune favors the bold, no matter how dangerous the elders claim the outside world is, I have to see for myself.
But now Selliqei, should be taken care of, The worst flaw anyone can have is that of self-deception.
Selliqei is like that, makes me wonder the kind of creature she assimilated with. She acted on impulse and then created the reason for her actions after the fact. If she was feeling good he did good(bad) things, if she was feeling negative in any way she still did bad things. she felt like her 'good' deeds meant she was a 'good' person of some kind and her bad deeds were justified. In truth she never thought before she acted or spoke, she never stopped to ask herself if her response was the right one. Whatever she said was almost never true, or at least it was only "true" for her. That's why this kingdom will fall apart if she becomes queen, I doubt she understands the responsibility of being the queen and what it entails, She just wants the power that comes along with the title.
"Janetta!!" someone called my name, when I turned to look, I found that it was an Elite guard from the palace, I watched him solemnly as you can never be to careful this days, "What is it?".
"The queen is dead..." He said warily and as if to confirm his words, all Spider folk suddenly felt inexplicable sadness as they all began to cry out and wail but my mind was already filled with worry.
'What will become of us?'
_________________________________________________________
Grey eye tribe,
Far west of White Mountain,
Durzol Greyeye's POV
A string of curses unraveled from my father's tongue, like yarn unfurling, he advanced to his lord's manor as his greenish grey skin that had long been enchanted by the shaman, shimmered lightly with hot anger within his dark, cold eyes. Every step he took rattled his bone necklace and struck my heart.
He tried control his anger but, I'm sure the death of Malu was like a slap to his face, the yells and hisses of the creatures around, all seemed inaudible to me right now as I was struck down by a massive pressure. All I could do is feel, Feel the cold ground pressed against my form, the heat from the pain, and the sound of my heart beating like a war drum that would signal my end. 'would father kill me?'.
His eyes exposed his inner struggles, and I prayed to my ancestors to protect me at this time, or for the to accept me and take me home. I closed my eyes waiting for the pain but...
"Get up Durzol, curse be the day, I kill my own blood...Blood horn tribe, good, good, good. I'm not angry at you, Durzol, but I am at myself, I should have expected this." Father said as he managed to control his anger.
Quickly I stood up and so did the others who had fallen like me, but I once again went on my knees and said, "what would you have me do father?".
____________________________________________________________
At the same time,
Black moon town,
Mine Entrance,
"Lets us go!!" Alex's voice boomed as he stepped into the Mines.
Unknown POV Once again I begin to question my very existence as I watched my Kin move around this little kingdom we call home. We stay in what the light skinned or should I say Humans call a cavern, the outer parts along with several other parts of this place suddenly began to produce this strange shiny rocks and filled us with energy. So we began to grow, we used this rocks to build our home on the roof of the cavern, From below it looked more like cl.u.s.ters of crystals and rocks, but when your like us who could climb across walls and step on roofs like the flat ground below, then it all makes sense. With The palace at the very center overlooking the rest, and it's many pointed structures built like towers giving it the look of an eccentric crown. Most us were either servants or soldiers, well you could say almost everyone. The other class of us spider folk were those who were able to evolve into Elites and to do so, is like scaling the sky even though I have never seen one, only memories. Our kind has never been a favored race, To evolve depended on luck, as the rules placed on us were rather troublesome because of our nature. When one is ready to evolve, they needed to go hunt for a prey with some measure of intelligence, we then feast on them while triggering our evolution process in order to assimilate the creatures memories to increase our own intelligence and genes. The one youo take determines the kind of elite you become. For example, most of the elites who managed to evolve recently were only able to find the little green creatures, they all ended up as guards for the palace but I was lucky or should I say unlucky?. During my time, I had been able to assimilate the memories of human, granting me intelligence that rivalled even mother's. This made me a queen candidate automatically and granted me the Sewell family name, but I was not alone, there were twenty three others like me but only four lived through the years. Some I killed while some were killed by the other living candidates. Each of us unlocked an ability at the time of Evolution and mine sometimes allow me to view the interior of other creatures troubled lives, and the exposure of these secrets usually allows me get to understand them better in whatever I was planning. But, as The Apostle in that human's memory said, "we see in part, and know in part"... Luckily, it has been what kept me alive for as long as I could remember. Unfortunately, this assimilation is not without any problems, sometimes you lose your personality, if I ever had one, In all, something must be lost, like Zessa who has been unable to turn back to our spider form, too bad Selliqei killed her, Perhaps all this should fill me with guilt and shame like the memories I got made me understand, but it doesn't. Deep down, We're the same beings we were thousands of years ago, even though we have evolved to live in small groups of kith and kin after years of running from other spider folk or abominable creatures. We aren't wired to care, no matter how the dying queen pretends to, I know deep down, if she had to chance to sacrifice us to live longer, she would. I'm not unkind, but this world is set up like that. Now the one with the highest chances to become the next Queen is Selliqei Sewell, the thoughtless, whimsical, tyrannical, dictator, quarrelsome, glum, teasing, heartless, sour, bully, antisocial, crazy, ill tempered, almost mad queen candidate. She would definitely kill the rest of us soon, I have to get rid of her even though I don't wish for the throne, I know it's the only way for me to evolve but I can't imagine myself, stuck in one place with nothing to do besides giving birth to thousands upon thousands, only to watch them kill each other over and over again, even then the possibility of dying like that is...No there has to be another way to evolve in the outside world, perhaps with the other spider folk. Fortune favors the bold, no matter how dangerous the elders claim the outside world is, I have to see for myself. But now Selliqei, should be taken care of, The worst flaw anyone can have is that of self-deception. Selliqei is like that, makes me wonder the kind of creature she assimilated with. She acted on impulse and then created the reason for her actions after the fact. If she was feeling good he did goodbad things, if she was feeling negative in any way she still did bad things. she felt like her 'good' deeds meant she was a 'good' person of some kind and her bad deeds were justified. In truth she never thought before she acted or spoke, she never stopped to ask herself if her response was the right one. Whatever she said was almost never true, or at least it was only "true" for her. That's why this kingdom will fall apart if she becomes queen, I doubt she understands the responsibility of being the queen and what it entails, She just wants the power that comes along with the title. "Janetta!!" someone called my name, when I turned to look, I found that it was an Elite guard from the palace, I watched him solemnly as you can never be to careful this days, "What is it?". "The queen is dead..." He said warily and as if to confirm his words, all Spider folk suddenly felt inexplicable sadness as they all began to cry out and wail but my mind was already filled with worry. 'What will become of us?' _________________________________________________________ Grey eye tribe, Far west of White Mountain, Durzol Greyeye's POV A string of curses unraveled from my father's tongue, like yarn unfurling, he advanced to his lord's manor as his greenish grey skin that had long been enchanted by the shaman, shimmered lightly with hot anger within his dark, cold eyes. Every step he took rattled his bone necklace and struck my heart. He tried control his anger but, I'm sure the death of Malu was like a slap to his face, the yells and hisses of the creatures around, all seemed inaudible to me right now as I was struck down by a massive pressure. All I could do is feel, Feel the cold ground pressed against my form, the heat from the pain, and the sound of my heart beating like a war drum that would signal my end. 'would father kill me?'. His eyes exposed his inner struggles, and I prayed to my ancestors to protect me at this time, or for the to accept me and take me home. I closed my eyes waiting for the pain but... "Get up Durzol, curse be the day, I kill my own blood...Blood horn tribe, good, good, good. I'm not angry at you, Durzol, but I am at myself, I should have expected this." Father said as he managed to control his anger. Quickly I stood up and so did the others who had fallen like me, but I once again went on my knees and said, "what would you have me do father?". ____________________________________________________________ At the same time, Black moon town, Mine Entrance, "Lets us go!!" Alex's voice boomed as he stepped into the Mines.
