Queen of Caverns

Get low, filth! Eat dirt. Breathe mud. Toil, food-fetcher!

DIG! 

Your claw is not yours. Is Mine. 

Your teeth are not yours. Are mine. 

Mine to crush, cast away. Mine to command, control.

I am Hive Mind. I am Queen.

There is no ‘you’. No ‘yours’.  

Only mine.

Now DIG! 

[...]

Worm-slime all! Bad Brood bad brood BAD! Weak as whimpers, ALL! Mewling spitgobs! Soil-soft and sickening! 

And Screechers getting stronger. Getting nearer. I hear them. Hear them creeping scraping scuttling closer, closer...

What to do what to do WHAT?! Calm. Be calm. Be Queen.

Useless broodlings must be Hardened. Sharpened. Strong. 

A Shell-Wall. 

A Shell-Wall against the Screechers!

[...]

Why not use the Soft-Shells? Yes! 

Let the Soft-Shells crush the weak and siphon the slime-bloods!

Then only Pure-Bloods remain! A Pure-Blood Brood! 

A perfect Shell-Wall against the Screechers! Yes!

[...]

STOP, FILTH! NO MORE DIG! 

Climb! 

Up up up FILTH! 

Up through cave, cavern and crust! 

Up as fighters, not workers! Up to taste blood, not mud! 

Up to battle!

Up to Soft-Shells!