Another awakening in this strange world.

But this one I actually anticipated.

Today I can head out to my family and this makes me glad.

Not even this feeling of strain that tells me what happened during my sleep can put my anticipation down.

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Urgh, I really don't need the numbers.

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I do as she says.

After all, Kyska does just mean well and knows more about princesses than I do.

There are still leftovers from yesterday and I eat.

And then I need to do "this".

It feels as bad as last time, but I can manage.

Also, it isn't nearly as much as before and so I settle down fast.

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So I do and after a while, there is some rambling close to the courtyard.

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This is rather clear and so I should start to get going.

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I didn't know that and hope I don't trouble them too much.

It also is disturbing how fast I've got used to them, which could be linked to these pheromones.

There was always this feeling of being soothed by their presence.

I head out and find the princess waiting for me like expected.

What I didn't expect was an army in her entourage.

A real one, not like my perception of the fifty winged soldiers she sent me, who already pose a fairly impressive force.

But this is a considerable war effort.

Thousands?

Maybe.

I see all kinds: Guardians, messengers, nurses, hunters, and naturally workers.

I am quite distressed at this sight.

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I start to walk in the direction this army is aligned to.

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I walk confused back to her.

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At this moment the assembled workers are building some kind of structure with their bodies.

They link their arms while remaining steady on the other four appendages, building some kind of platform with living walls of workers, steadied by guardians at the corners and other key points.

A stair of kneeling nurses builds and Liseti urges me to climb it with gestures.

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She urges me further and Kyska gently pushes me forward.

I have no real choice, but to step at this distressingly stable living nurse stair, which doesn't even budge.

I manage to climb to the top and am in some kind of bizarre flesh carriage.

No head of the builders is really exposed and the surface has nearly no gaps.

Even more disturbing, some kind of benches have formed.

Directly behind me, Kyska who forced me forward enters.

After this, Liseti, with two nurses, and last Suki follow.

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Kyska guides me down on one of these "benches".

This all is terribly disturbing.

My two nurses each settle on my side, while Liseti does the same on my opposite.

Suddenly a great amount of interceptors is flying towards us, landing on the flesh wall.

But then they turn away and link their bodies as all the others did before.

So the wall extends upwards, grows together, and finally a closed ceiling forms above us.

I start to tremble at this sight.

This is literally a prison made of flesh, bones, teeth, and claws.

And the weak light now only comes dimly through the gaps above.

One of the other nurses seems to have caught up to my sorry state.

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Kyska and Suki are embracing me and try to soothe my mind.

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She gives a signal and the room starts to stir.

The next moment I notice movement and slowly the structure gains in momentum.

I concentrate on Suki and Kyska to ease myself but soon become aware that there is a decent speed.

And it grows faster.

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The flesh carriage is traveling fast.

The tunnels aren't this lighted, but my eyes and the occasional light stones help.

Occasionally the room becomes tighter, adjusting to the smaller structures and I get small claustrophobic attacks.

However, those settle down when it gets wider again.

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They would be inside a town on the verge of a mass-panic.

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She is this important?

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Do I really have now to explain the value of money?

Yet when I think about it, it is kind of complicated.

But I hope I can somehow convey this.

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How important is money in the end?

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Seeing her like this I get the creeps.

She is dangerously perceptive and I can already see her using the now obtained knowledge as a weapon.

Or if not this, it will certainly grant her power over humans.

An insect taking over the human world by using society against them.

This would have been a horror story just some days ago for me.

And even now I cannot really rest assured at this idea.

However, I am safe I guess.

Now I need to make sure my family is too!