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[hydralize]

Who: Anyone
When: Day 92, Late Morning
Where: Level 3, by the common area doors
What:

[Remember those insect terrors the recent notice was warning people about? Nova's sitting by the common area doors with one of them draped across his shoulders. It's going for his face!!11

. . . To crawl up the side of it and peer outside from the better vantage point on top of his head. Completely unalarmed, he reaches up to feed it a shard of bone from the thoroughly gnawed pile sitting beside him. He even pets its terrifying insect head while it nibbles eagerly away at it.

Terrifying, am I right?]

Comments

[rabukidastrophes]

So no one has to worry about terapedes eating through their walls and laying eggs in their hearts while they sleep?

[hydralize]

N-No! Like I'd let that happen!

[rabukidastrophes]

You wouldn't let it happen but it's a thing that could happen...?

[hydralize]

. . . If something happened to sever the link between me and Dardania . . . O-Or if the Maiden got angry enough with someone.

[rabukidastrophes]

So it's kind of a hive mind thing...? Protective spirit man eating centipedes?

[hydralize]

. . . Yeah. Kind of, I guess.

[rabukidastrophes]

Who's the Maiden?

[hydralize]

My patron goddess from Sabra.

[rabukidastrophes]

[reaches out to pet the centipede]

What happens if something happens to her? Ah... not like an attack but... gets lost? Or falls asleep and doesn't wake up?

[hydralize]

[The terapede submits to petting pretty easily, veeeerry lightly nibbling at his hand. Nowhere near enough to break skin.]

She wouldn't.

[rabukidastrophes]

You know those things happen. No one plans for it.

[hydralize]

No, I mean that Dardania could find her. Terapedes are her sacred animal. And her body is even younger than I am. She wouldn't die so easily.

[rabukidastrophes]

She could still fall into a coma. No one's safe from that.

[hydralize]

—Don't say that.

[rabukidastrophes]

Sorry, but you know it's true. Anyway I'm not trying to worry you, I just want to know if your pets are only tame as long as she's around.

[hydralize]

. . . As long as either one of us is around. Guillotine or Zexion might have the same blessing too.

[rabukidastrophes]

Okay.

[pets terapede]

[hydralize]

[uneasy grumbling

terapede seems happy enough though]