The crawler was covered in burrowing ants, and its body was almost completely covered in bite marks.
From the way it trembled and its behaviour, Theo could tell that the crawler was under immense stress.
'Ant queen, what happened?' Theo asked.
In response, the Ant Queen only showed him the images of the ants engaging the crawler in their usual fights, all before the Ant Queen could think of using it for the future.
Theo could swear he could feel a headache coming.
He quickly told the Ant Queen to order the crawler to surface, but then he paused, as if stuck with a thought.
He wasn't sure if the Ant Queen could give it a command from such a distance.
But the Ant Queen just nodded its head, implying it was okay and that it could relay the command through whichever ant was closest to it.
So the ant queen also commanded a reinforced Shardjaw to accompany the crawler.
He waited for a few minutes…
And still, the crawler had not surfaced.
