"Every beautiful daughter of the colony has six legs, so it is written that The Disturbance That Feeds must have six legs too. But I am a scientist! Each time the sky has rumbled and food has come from above (or Punishment as in the day of The Cleaning) I have trained my senses on What Comes From Above and I have counted! Each time only Five legs! Five! What heresy is this? I must write in secret, but I must write because it is what I have observed.
"On one day I was brave: climbed up on The Disturbance and aimed to cross her end to end. In this I discovered another thing: The Disturbance has no end. It is not a sky-sized creature, but much bigger than the sky. Where her gaster should have been is only an endless branch like the 'Trees' our elder queen has told us of as larvae. Perhaps The Disturbance is a tree? More heresy! I despair. Who will save this little ant? Do trees have six legs? They must. But then what is The Disturbance?"
