12-13-2019, 11:33 AM
He couldn't remember a time when he wasn't on his own. No parents, no real friends, just him and his life - for a few months, when he was learning to read, he had someone for himself, but other than that short-lived friendship, there was nothing.
These days, though, he technically wasn't on his own anymore. Even if he didn't share a house with anyone, he still lived in this clan, full of oddly personable people spending their lives interacting with each other. It was such an odd change from his previous living standards that sometimes he felt like he was experiencing some sort of existential vertigo - as if his world was flipped upside-down. Truly, it was the sort of harsh change in climate that he found himself excited to adapt to, to grow and change to fit its needs. The peak of experience was, to him, evolution - and this was a place that essentially forced him into it.
And not just from the radiation, either.
He was walking about the clan now, taking a stroll to browse through all the empty houses and see if any caught his fancy, when he ran across the very frustrated child that interrupted his plans quite thoroughly. Frankly, the spider was tempted to move on, ignore him - it was quite cold out, even if it wasn't chilly enough for snow today, and he didn't enjoy the thought of practically freezing for any amount of time. He didn't know what stopped him, what whispered in his ear "not a huge problem, you can fix easily." Perhaps it was some phantom of one of his clanmates like Aurum or Moth, a shadowy doppelganger influencing his thoughts, or perhaps he was just in a good enough mood to feel some empathy towards the kid. Either way, the massive spider stopped, lowering his face to examine the bag and the root in full.
"Greetings," he grumbled coolly. "Does subject require assistance?"
These days, though, he technically wasn't on his own anymore. Even if he didn't share a house with anyone, he still lived in this clan, full of oddly personable people spending their lives interacting with each other. It was such an odd change from his previous living standards that sometimes he felt like he was experiencing some sort of existential vertigo - as if his world was flipped upside-down. Truly, it was the sort of harsh change in climate that he found himself excited to adapt to, to grow and change to fit its needs. The peak of experience was, to him, evolution - and this was a place that essentially forced him into it.
And not just from the radiation, either.
He was walking about the clan now, taking a stroll to browse through all the empty houses and see if any caught his fancy, when he ran across the very frustrated child that interrupted his plans quite thoroughly. Frankly, the spider was tempted to move on, ignore him - it was quite cold out, even if it wasn't chilly enough for snow today, and he didn't enjoy the thought of practically freezing for any amount of time. He didn't know what stopped him, what whispered in his ear "not a huge problem, you can fix easily." Perhaps it was some phantom of one of his clanmates like Aurum or Moth, a shadowy doppelganger influencing his thoughts, or perhaps he was just in a good enough mood to feel some empathy towards the kid. Either way, the massive spider stopped, lowering his face to examine the bag and the root in full.
"Greetings," he grumbled coolly. "Does subject require assistance?"
tags - "speech"