The swarm's cave is surprisingly quiet though that would be expected since they have no mouths. But what about them walking you say well we aren't deep enough for that. We are only on the outer rim of their cave.
There are three circle rings and in between, there are the rooms where the Swarm Assemblers work.
The third ring is where the hunters look for things to kill and don't come across them often but also the Diggers are there just in holes and digging. As well as some swarmlings once and a while to clean the dirt from diggers.
The second ring is where the Swarm Assemblers are as well as a lot more swarmlings. But also a lot more Diggers finishing up on rooms or pathways.
The first ring the most crows a lot of Swarm Assemblers, Swarmlings, But barely any Diggers.
Then you have the middle where the Queen is and where all the traffic is and Swarmlings are.
Though that's not where we are we are at the third ring but not directly in it we are a little farther out. We are in a smaller partway that the Diggers made that's going to be made into a pathway to the fourth ring one day. Though we aren't focused on the swarm we are focused on the Elix's.
As you would think Elix's are also very intelligent. They know more than the Swarm they are inferior on the planted for now. As you would think they need ores and resources to make stuff. So they mine through the planet to get them and this is where they are now. While mining they discovered weirdly made holes though they don't know what from. So they explore and dig where the holes go the Diggers quickly find the noise of the drill and watch and some go tell the Queen about the new creatures.
Though not all Swarmlings know so hunters hear them mining and go see what it was. They spot the Elix's mining through and they swiftly ambush the Elix's by biting them and stabbing them with their sharp rocks almost like spikes. The Elix screams in pain as it's quickly taken down on its knees. The other one Elix's start hitting them with his pick while the other one cowards scared and terrified of the new discovery of the swarm.
The Elix who tries to help gets overwhelmed by the back up of Hunters. The scared Elix starts to climb out of the cave only to get tunged on by the hunters as they try to pull him down he kicks and thrashes and frees himself and quickly climbs to get out the hunters let him leave not thinking of anything besides food.