♍ 14 * it looks like your egg's about to hatch... egg hatched into mother grub! [video]

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[SUDDENLY! Frantic Kanaya peering into the camera, her voice quite strained. It sounds like she may have been yelling for the last hour at least.]I-I think I have a slight problem! Um, sh-she hatched without my doing anything and I'm not ready at all and c-could someone come help me, um, and maybe, bring some food--like, um, like leaves! Nepeta

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[hisbutler_bound]

[Sebastian's never seen one of those before, so he'll just stare a little and tilt his head. Sorta looks like something else and yet....]

Pardon me but, what is that?

[Curious wish week panther ears twitch on top of his head.]

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[Kanaya only sort of knows who he is but he definitely doesn't usually have ears, does he? She blinks at him for a moment before SUDDENLY! The grub leaps off her shoulder and her attention is distracted again.]

Sh-she's a mother grub! She's the Mother Grub now, our race... [Kanaya is now on the floor, trying to coax her out from under a measuring table.]

She, she lays the eggs.

[hisbutler_bound]

[Sebastian is unfortunately still staring. His left ear flicks a few times]

The Mother Grub? Again, pardon me if I do not know what that is.

So, she's like a bug or a larva? Is it useful? Are you harvesting silk?

[jaded_auxiliary]

Trolls can't, I mean, we can't...

[Yeah, that reaching hand just got bitten. OW!]

S-she lays the eggs for the whole race.

[hisbutler_bound]

[His brow lifts slightly.] Reproduce?

So, she really is a "Mother". Interesting.

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Yes, reproduce--not like humans do! I learned all about it from Miss Tsubaki and we can't do that at all so we need her. I thought I'd lost her but she came back this week...

[Which leaves her looking sad, until the grub crawls out from under the table and decides it is time for GRUB SNUGGLES, which means Kanaya cannot be sad anymore. It is impossible.]

[hisbutler_bound]

[His tail lifts into the air and begins to flick back and forth at the tip at new information. Now that his master is gone he needs something to.... troll]

Does it mate with other grubs such as Father grubs, or is it simply something that bares eggs on its own?

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[She quietly pets her grub, holding onto her protectively as she speaks.] No no no, the imperial drones bring her genetic material from all--all the adult trolls. [She was going to say us, but that was just too weird.]

[hisbutler_bound]

[Watch his brow twitch as his ears perk still in curiousity. Genetic...material? Such as hair or tissue, or was it other more discreet things] Imperial drones.... would be what exactly?

[jaded_auxiliary]

[Kanaya looks a little nervous to be even discussing those damn things.] They're workers who collect the material... they, um, they'll kill anyone who doesn't have it.

[hisbutler_bound]

[Sebastian doesn't seem to mind or care, as long as he gets information] I'm not sure I understand why they would kill. Is it because they cannot put out such 'genetic material' or is it that their bodies are simply used as such after being killed?

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N-No, they don't use the bodies! It's, it's considered a failure if the pails aren't filled, so they'll kill the trolls...

[Sebastian is a little scary, and so is this subject.]

[hisbutler_bound]

[Watch Sebastian's eyes narrow a little in confusion. Knowing the size of pails at home...] They are small pails?

Or are trolls capable of producing such 'genetic material'?

[jaded_auxiliary]

O-o-oh my goodness I-I don't think I can talk about this anymore, um, it's sort of, I mean, um, I'm only 6, s-so inappropriate... [Kanaya is turning all sorts of green. This is the most culturally insensitive conversation ever.]

[hisbutler_bound]

Only six, but you look so much older? Curious. You must age progressively faster than humans, though I admit I've never tasted your bloodlines, or should I say, not all of them, nor have I studied them.

[Realizing he's being impolite, he'll stop with the genetic talk at least] Pardon me.