the ant midwife

An ant midwife carries a pale egg gently in her jaws.

The midwife is a slim, quick ant about two and a half feet long, whose task is to carry each new egg from the Queen to the nursery.  She holds her pale burden so gently that it never cracks, but her mandibles are hooked and sharp, and she will set the egg down to fight anything that threatens it. Her antennae stroke the egg constantly as she walks, as if counting it.

Where it is found

Found in Ant Hill/Caves of the Red Eye Goblins: The Bend in the Tunnel, The Junk Alcove

Carries and wears

Nothing.

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