— Hello, Anselm, — Daniel approached his “brother” from behind and put his arm around his shoulder.
Shino cuddles up to someone, and Daniel cuddles up to someone else.
After putting on thick gloves and thanking the wondrous creature for its gift, Veserod skillfully removes its teeth and puts them in a pouch, making sure it doesn't tear or leak. Before leaving, he has a thought to take one more look into the cave and see what has become of it, but he dismisses it as unnecessary. Who knows how many more such creatures might live there, and where they might nest? And what if they have undermined the entire rock and a collapse might occur?
He casts a final glance at the larva and smiles, knowing that now its offspring will not be left without food, and continues his hunt – but this time in a direction closer to the road, hoping that there will be fewer monsters there, taking away the game from honest workers.