Dead Tired II by Ravensdagger
Author:Ravensdagger
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mango Media LLC
Published: 2023-12-30T00:00:00+00:00
Chapter Twenty-One - Memorable Mem
The first thing I did was to find a stone to sit upon. Not that I minded standing, but it was a little bit more comfortable to rest while seated. My rear was a little bony (oh-hoho!), so I didnât mind sitting on a large rock.
âIf I may interject,â I said. âPerhaps you should start a little sooner. Tell us about yourself.â
The mantis, Mem, shuffled from side to side, her scythes scraping together in a way that I could only read as anxiety. âMemâs not interesting,â she said.
âI donât know about that,â the limpet said. She was still standing, arms crossed and legs set. She likely still had the impression that this was a military intervention, that she was a commander interrogating an adversary. While she was technically correct, that did show a certain inability to read the room.
Not that we were in a room.
Mem looked around and, seeing little support, made herself a little smaller. âWhen do you want Mem to start?â she asked.
The limpet opened her mouth, closed it, and then considered. âFine, tell us about yourself, like how you grew up and where youâre from. If Master thinks itâs important to know, then itâs important to know.â
The mantis rubbed at one eye with an elbow. âMem can do that. Mem is from the Mother, the Queen of All. She is Mom, and she is the one that names all of Memâs sisters and also named Mem, and who ate many cultivators to make eggs that become more sisters.â
The mantis settled a little on the spot, her eyes twitching toward Rem, who stood by the side and listened.
âMem and her sisters are from the Flaming Steppes, a place near a big city filled with humans called Yu Xiang. Mem was raised with a lot of other sisters, but they were eaten by Mom before they grew big enough to get names.â
âThe Divine Mother only allows the strongest mantises to live,â Rem said.
Mem nodded. âYes. Mem heard that a lot. But Mem isnât strong. Still, Mem wasnât eaten because Mem was good at being sneaky, and whenever Mom would reach in to grab some of Memâs sisters to eat, Mem would trip and avoid Momâs grasp.â
âYouâre not supposed to call the Divine Mother Mom,â Rem muttered.
âMem heard humans call their moms mom, so Mem calls her mom Mom too.â
âImpeccable reasoning,â I said while hiding my amusement. If nothing else, calling a god by a certain name long enough would warp them, if only slightly, having someone with Memâs power... which wasnât all that terribly noticeable but was still greater than the average humanâsâcalling her âMomâ would perhaps irritate the goddess in question.
Irritating gods, as illogical and occasionally foolhardy as it was, were always a great source of amusement for me.
Mem shook a little, and I had the impression that she was suppressing some excitement. âThat was how Mem remembers her early life. It was a lot of being scared and falling away from problems.â
âClumsy stupid,â Rem muttered.
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