#bhadai

You straighten up, and look around you. After a couple seconds... you spot something adorably tiny!

Well, it’s decided. You must have it.

You reach up and try to just... grab it. It bolts up a tree. No big deal, you think to yourself as you grab a branch and hoist yourself. You’ve climbed a few trees in your time.

You follow it up the tree, then up one of the branches, until it is perched on the very end of a branch. Giggling, fueled by whatever instinct it is inside you that makes you want to chase small things that run away, you reach out and bat it with your hand!

You do it a few more times just to pester and daze it, then you grab it with both hands and clutch it to your chest, swinging down so you’re now hanging upside-down from the branch. You squeeze the little ten-tentacled thing, and play around with the little suckers that curl up around your fingers.

You then curl up around it and roll into a ball as you drop from the branch. Your soft body absorbs the shock well, and the thing seems frightened, but healthy when you stand. You carry it back to your hive.

When you show Malari the new addition to your terrarium, you’re surprised to see that she seems a bit upset by its addition. You offer to remove it, to which she says no, but... you probably will, anyway. You don’t want to upset her.