okay so

  you can't tell but there's an hour between that last sentence and this one

  hour of pacing and muttering and playing with eyespider

  original eyespider

  should think up name for ninja agrotoxin eyespiders to distinguish them from #1 eyespider. skullspider. myspider. okay that'll do for now.

  good distraction jin

  that was like a minute

  need more distractions

  from the horrible thing

  that happened

  today

  well tonight

  it was pretty dark

  maybe she didn't see me?

  no but then why would she scream and run away

  so yes

  the thing is

  there's a human around

  probably more than one

  you get them in clusters

  unless maybe i just hallucinated her?

  oh please let me be hallucinating humans

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  maybe i've been hallucinating this entire time

  all the giant ants have actually been

  giant humans?

  no that doesn't work at all

  i mean sure if it was zombies we were dealing with then i could buy the whole 'you've been killing regular humans the entire time jin you are the monster' thing

  but no

  even the best hallucination can't turn a regular human into a giant insect that eats your arm

  that's just not believable

  gotta face facts here

  probably not hallucinating

  not her at least

  assuming gender a bit but that's the least of my troubles

  let's maybe get some stuff straight. that could help. so. i was out checking ninjaspider progress re: suburban ants. also checking giant ant progress re: rotting. how long can a giant ant stay just lying around before you can't use its bits for stuff any more. these are important questions that should be answered. anyway i was just doing my thing amongst the antcorpses. recording potentially useful numbers. taking chitin samples. happy as a bee.

  then the scream

  the hideous scream of a human

  those things are so noisy

  not like giant ants. never really appreciated this before. giant ants don't make much in the way of noise. little bit of clicking. little kind of cute six legged footsteps when they move around. giant ants are light. because of the antigrav antgutgem deal. i should invent a shockwave thing or an airblaster or something. just blast these things away. giant reverse vacuum cleaner the surprising answer to all my problems.

  well not all of them

  can't blast a human away with a giant reverse vacuum cleaner

  or could you

  ah lovely distractions. you sooth my troubled mind in these stressful times. always comes back to humans though doesn't it.

  the problem that cannot be ignored

  or could it

  no no because she saw me and went running off and i really doubt she's surviving in this mess on her own. i mean if one little eyespider crawling out of a cyborg girl's skull is gonna make you scream then i'm sorry but you are soft as flip. way too soft for giant ant shenanigans. right? yes. i am right.

  i think she had a gun

  not a cool gun like my junk

  regular bulletgun

  haven't tested shield against bullets

  haven't got any bullets

  i hope this does not become

  problems

  not sure what to do now

  before this happened i was all excited about power plant stuff

  excited to use my laser shotgun again

  excited to maybe invent a lightning gun

  drones doing good work over there

  that was going to be my next thing

  fixing up a power plant

  making another base over there

  cracking the mareo piracy protection drm junk so i can force it to make another mareo

  matter reorganisers reorganising matter into more matter reorganisers

  this is the stuff i wanted to be thinking about

  now

  i don't even know

  bleh