the march of ants
rodney was an ant colony. rodney had a queen, around fifty thousand worker ants with a handful of different skills, as well as a few other kinds of ants like princess ants with wings.
rodney liked to think their colony was big. they had a number of antholes, extensive experience with managing underground drainflows amidst changing weather and underground communities, and they knew all the trails to areas of dense calorie fall, and all the surprising side explore paths when an object fell on your trail, or a mammal scuffed the scents away, or a big spot of the canopy opened and all the light came from a different new direction.
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