233 - Tiny Spider

Plotline: Main

Type: Social, System

It was two days and one attack before Bei Lala upended a leather pouch before me, dumping out an albino spider with a red circle on its back.

"This," she said, "is called the Heartbreaker Spider. Eat it."

<Are you Aware?> I asked it. <Awakened? Can you understand me?>

<Thank the gods, yes!> it sent back. <You have no clue what I've been through!>

"This spider is Awakened, Aware. It is as sentient as either of us."

"I fail to see your point." she said.

"One ought not to eat any creature capable of asking you not to eat it." I said.

With a loud slam, her hand came down upon the spider. "What about now?" she asked. She moved aside, revealing its ruined body. "We have a room downstairs where we kill our own soldiers. Do you think I'm going to be deterred by the rights of something that isn't even human?"

"That. Was monstrous." I said.