STRANGER SHADOWS | open.

[Luciferr]

I ADMIRE IT'S PURITY

if he had visible eyes they'd be burning holes through shark-cat-praetorian's head.

Instead the eyeless beast merely turned to the shark-cat and stared for a full minute before pointedly turning away to continue munching on the dead prey-slave - praetorian shark-cat might be but BlackTide thought him a poor one,

Praetorians were to guard the queens and higher castes yet this one bothered him over a dead prey - trivial matter - if it were dead it would be eaten, if it were lame or ill then it became useless as its function and thus culled - it kept slave-prey from trying to attack hive and kept the hive culled of useless wastes that had more usability dead than alive.

And since no hosts were currently needed - they were only good for food for now.

Green-drone joined them and the alien creatures ears flickered at the high voice - sparing a low rumble for green's enthusiastic greeting, recognising the prey-tongue's word in reference to him, though he had no words on the little left - green-drone simply suffered of lack of timing, if she were here earlier green would have found more to chew on.

Half-jaw joined them, BlackTide rumbling in his direction - an amused note almost to the quality of the vibrating sound at the visible taunting - half-jaw had scars, therefor half-jaw had proven himself of some quality, he was a good strange-hive.

Green had brought prey had come to strange-hive from enemy-prey yet had proven to be of hive after all - he'd yet to see what any quality other than bothersome shark-cat was so far.

Idly he wondered where pale-mother was - were their more siblings with strange void skin yet?

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