Chapter 1476 – Unthinkable

“What do you mean?” Chozth demanded, her voice low and dangerous.

All the Krath could sense the tension in the air, growing still and turning their stalks towards Zluth covertly. He knew what they were thinking, that he was about to become the powerful tribe-leader’s next meal.

Not if he had anything to do with it.

“We managed to capture and escape with an ant captive,” he explained smoothly, “but the ants pursued us using monsters equipped to fight outside of their safe-zone for a time. In the scramble, we lost the captive and one of the members of my warparty was captured.”

“HOW WAS A KRATH CAPTURED?” the sleek Krath bellowed, flashing over and looming over Zluth in what seemed like an instant.

Her eyes blazed red with wrath, and her flesh sizzled with the force of her rage. A potent acrid scent rose from the leader, and Zluth could feel his eyes begin to burn from her breath alone.

“By being a coward who wants to preserve their own life over the primacy of the tribes,” he replied.

She wanted to eat him, he could see it in her eyes, but she resisted the urge, through sheer iron will.

“We will need to deal with this Goszi in the harshest possible way,” she announced, turning away from Zluth to address the rest of the gathered slugs. “He has betrayed his tribe, his war leader and the entirety of the Krath tribes!”

Her declaration turned the burning anticipation of watching their leader devour a hapless victim into a bellowing rage toward the perpetrator of such an unthinkable action. Zluth breathed a quiet sigh of relief as the gathered Krath hissed, sizzled and spat while Chozth continued to give voice to her fury.

“Only the deepest slime pits in the stratum are worthy to receive a scum-sucking slug like this! I promise an eternity of horror and suffering will fall on this traitor’s head, and great rewards will go to the Krath who brings him to me!”

Many of the gathered Krath’lath and Krath’sizz promised swift and vicious retribution would fall on Goszi, the gathering filled with the pop and sizzle of roiling acid within slug flesh. With a wave of her limbs, Chozth dismissed the gathering and turned back toward Zluth.

“You have some explaining to do,” she hissed.

When the others had departed, she dragged him close to the wall, away from those trying to listen in surreptitiously, and bared her fangs in his face.

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“I’m sure you’re aware just how close you came to being my meal. You may still, if you aren’t careful. Now, explain to me exactly what happened.”

Somehow, Zluth felt that if he were to rely on his natural instinct and lie, he was sure to be consumed, so he did something that he seldom had cause to do: he told the truth.

Chozth listened as he explained the various actions he’d taken in his tunnel, how the large ant had shown up to foil his attacks time and again, and the full extent of his conversation with Goszi. He went into detail, laying out the old slug’s observations and proposed strategy before finally detailing exactly how the attack had gone.