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Chapter 4 - A changed World

When the female got to the stomach it avoided and continued with the rest of the meat leaving it for the male.

When the male ate the stomach he had the same reaction to poison sack to a lesser degree but it was enough to trigger the molting again.

But this time it wont take hours to finish because the energy intake was so in ten minutes it was though the female had finished the rest of the meat with only bones left but it was fine for him.

Since they ate the snake whole they decide to leave the burrow.

When they got it was night so they got to the tree that was close and climbed to it's higher branches and hid from the nocturnal animals in the leaves of the tree.

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The next day they woke up with the sun up but what they witness was totally different from the usual days!

The world was so vibrant!

It feels like before every was a shade of grey!

Now they can so many different aspects of the world around them that they simply ignored before!

'Maybe, wall scratches, change, world' said the male

'No, scratches, change, us, cool energy, change, eyes' said the female

Since they didn't have a permanent nest they usually just wonder, searching for prey, and that's what they did.

While moving through the grass the taking a whole world of new smells not only of prey but also of colorful plants and one particular smell is constant.

'Smell, everywhere, what?' asked the male.

'Don't know, feels good, no problem' answered her.

While wondering the forest they find many small insects to snack on.

What the major difference of the day with the previous days is that now the feel their respective mixture of energies strengthening them with every digested meal

'become stronger, every meal' stated the female

'stronger, prey, stronger, energy?' asked the male

'I think, let's go, kill strong, eat strong, like before' she answered and offered

'Yes' he confirmed 'But, strong, where?'

'Danger, that way, other way, no danger, danger is strong, we together, stronger than alone' was her answer

And so for the first time in their short life they went against their instinct and instead of avoiding danger they got to the danger something no insect would've done in their place.

Over the hill where they felt the danger there was an even denser forest but the atmosphere was chilling to the bone, being able to here growls and roars of creatures fighting. Disturbing indeed

Still with nerves of steel, or newborn ignorance they scale down the other side.

A few trees in to the forest they found a hole many times bigger than them and they feel a tremor inside, the hole is occupied.