Air, sound, even light itself seems to drain away as the Gravity Bomb tears its way though the space between us. Even deep in her frenzy, Garralosh has enough awareness to know that the dark, rotating sphere screaming its way towards her face is bad news. Her claws dig into the ground as she attempts to shift her momentum. It’s …

Grant had always been a quiet one, even when I’d trained her. I wasn’t shocked at all when she’d evolved into a Soldier, low-key dedication to the colony was always her way. As I watch Garralosh charge once more in an unthinking mad frenzy, I feel so lost, that such a bright and promising member of the colony, of the …

That crafty leather faced lizard! He’d let Garralosh regain control of her body a few seconds before me! Now I’m deep in brown town! My enhanced neural network fires at a speed beyond what would normally be possible and I’m dodging before my brain can fully process what has occurred. Synapses spark, muscles fire and I fly to the right …

I’m not sure what I expected, honestly. Here in the base of Garralosh’s psyche, I kind of thought I’d be talking to a person. Instead, her mind is represented by an amorphous shifting mass that is at any one time part human, part crocodile, part Escher painting. [I WILL KILL YOU.] Good start! [You do a lot of that. Killing …

I’d not attempted this spell before, but I’d known how to do it since my mind magic affinity skill had ranked up. Essentially, the spell allowed the wielder to invade the mind of the other. Garralosh had almost successfully done something similar with pure, raw emotion, but my attempt was more sophisticated. Since she had opened herself up by exploding …

Beds are wonderful things, don’t you think? Especially if you have a good one. My family had never shown me affection in any meaningful way, but I did have decent stuff. At least, I did until the collectors got hold of me. My bed had given me the welcome and comfort that was missing from everywhere else in my home. …

Perhaps, somewhere deep inside the leathery hide and muscle bound physique, there still exists the person Garralosh was before she came here. Maybe I can shock her with an image, or sensation. It’s been a heck of a long time since she came here, but it might get some response. If it distracts her for a couple of seconds, I’ll …

I revel in my triumphant bite for a fraction of a second too long. Even the tingle of my antennae and a lightning quick response isn’t enough to completely save me from the retaliatory sweep of Garralosh’s mid leg. It’s hard to twist an ant body. Hard in the sense that you can’t do it. So she clips me on …

I wove the bridge deftly and with incredible ease, the likes of which I hadn’t felt before. The extra stats flexed their muscles here, the Cunning allowing me to comprehend and visualise the complex patterns with so much more clarity, the Will allowing me to handle the mana and direct it to my wishes much easier. It’s so nice! When …

How long have I been asleep?! Just what on earth went on around here?! From the mound of the nest the surrounding area is a complete disaster zone! The rings of walls the colony had worked so hard to build are in ruins, smashed apart and, in places, the dirt walls had collapsed to create wide ramparts that had become …