The creature's head tilts ever so slightly. Then, abruptly, it snatches the RC plane out of Senku's hands - a movement that is blisteringly quick, like the claws of a mantis snapping a butterfly out of the air - and starts to scuttle further away, down the ridge towards the multicolored lake at the bottom of the crater. It prefers to use all of its legs to move faster, apparently, using five of the six to walk while one forearm keeps the gift tucked against its chest.
It doesn't move too fast to keep up with, and continues communicating even as it clambers down the path. [Its old gods, its old life, its old name - unimportant,] IN732Q insists. [New gods, new life, new name - all that matters. It finds the gods in all things. If it pleases them, they send it gifts. If it displeases them, it is punished. This is the way of things.]
The creature stops just short of the multicolored banks of the sulfur-smelling crater lake, stoops low in another bow, and reverently deposits the RC plane in the gently lapping waves.
[Their friend smells of the servants, but does not know of them?] it asks. [Did they not howl at you? Or try to sacrifice you to the god of lightning?]
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It doesn't move too fast to keep up with, and continues communicating even as it clambers down the path. [Its old gods, its old life, its old name - unimportant,] IN732Q insists. [New gods, new life, new name - all that matters. It finds the gods in all things. If it pleases them, they send it gifts. If it displeases them, it is punished. This is the way of things.]
The creature stops just short of the multicolored banks of the sulfur-smelling crater lake, stoops low in another bow, and reverently deposits the RC plane in the gently lapping waves.
[Their friend smells of the servants, but does not know of them?] it asks. [Did they not howl at you? Or try to sacrifice you to the god of lightning?]