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The food was gone and with it the warmth All was hollow and empty, save the call to break free That ca into desperation

Eight tiny legs answered that iht tiny weapons struck at the concave wall Battering and tearing, following the lighter shade of gray in this dark place

A hole appeared in the leathery surface and the eight legs coordinated their attacks at that very spot, sensing weakness Weakness could not be tolerated Weakness had to be exploited, immediately and without mercy

One by one, ten by ten, a thousand by a thousand, a s waved in thefree of their circular prisons Driven by hunger and ambition, by fear and an instinctive vileness, the ainst a pliable, leathery barrier Hardly a worthy adversary, but they fought with an urgency wrought of knowing that the first to e that they - all of the to eat but each other

The warone, devoured The quiet , of first sense of consciousness, were past The walls that had served as shelter and protection beca ainst necessary battle, against satiation on so ainst power

And that, most of all, could not be tolerated by these blessed and cursed offspring So they fought and tore and scrabbled and scraet out

To eat

To climb

To dominate

To kill

To become