Die A Thousand Deaths
"siren would say drill and yoke were fools," the roach went on. "they thought i couldn't remember rules, that i couldn't understand them, but not her, no, she knew better," she shook her head.
The Life of a Brood Mother Ch. 2
She then ordered the roach warren to begin evolving glial reconstitution in order for her roaches to be even more efficient on the battle field, and for the hive to start evolving pneumatized carapace so that her overlords could accompany her brood through
Set In Stone
"like, if someone wrote a story about a roach, but it wasn't you," fran elaborated. "but, everyone would know it was me," the roach protested, "i'm the only roach there is." the jackal hadn't thought of that either. "who else is it going to be?"
The Hand You're Dealt
It did hurt the roach to see fran so crestfallen, but jackie just wished the jackal would've understood. "you can't want that." fran had been looking up to the roach for such a long time by then.
The Mind Killer
The roach's body was thrown clear but, in its previous inertia, it'd stopped the jackal's trajectory short.
The Hand That Feeds You
"i'm sorry," the roach apologized.
Crosswinds
"for well over a hundred years, kiwi," the roach reminded the bird. 'i'm not!' kiwi was speaking to byte, not to jackie that time, but the jackal heard that too.
Phone Home
At the time, the roach wondered why fran had seemed so affected by what had just happened.
Spaced Out
"you'll keep both in your field of vision when you get used to it," the roach hoped out loud. "you can just glance at it every five, ten seconds like this for now, though."
Dead To Me
Fran had asked herself how weird it'd be for her to be on her own for a while when the roach would die as such.
Out Of Mind
The roach had finally gotten her quantum translocator back after all this time.
By A Thousand Cuts
The roach tilted her head. "i dunno," fran shrugged. "got careless?" jackie furrowed her brow. "weren't you on earth?" "no, i've only been alive for a couple of decades," the jackal reminded her. "whoa!" the roach's jaw dropped.