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Who: ANTS ... and Blanks I guess.
Where: The commons area to the west of Pyxis
When: Day 144, Late
What: :D

[It's pretty far from civilization, but a double column of giant cave ants marching in WILL attract attention.

The first of the colony seem to establish perimeters, cutting or biting lines in the ground.. Others come after, dragging blocks and wood...

There is some large scale construction going ... and happening fast.]

HA HA! Easy on the west wall there! Solid! No holes!

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Really? He doesn't seem like a troublesome kind of person.

The other kind. Naive and optimistic.

What's wrong with being optimistic?

...

It's fine if you're masochistic.

. . .

I think it's more masochistic to decide to be miserable all the time.

Who says it's miserable? Just a different focus.

Of course it's different, but acting like optimism itself is bad . . . Don't you hope for things?

[If it looks like that whole idea has never occurred to him? ... then it's a pretty accurate expression.]

. . .

Hope's for when you don't have half a fucking plan put together.

You have to hope a plan will work to consider using it.

More like hope some idiot doesn't fuck it up. And plan for that eventuality around here.

. . .

...

That sounds depressing no matter how you say it.

Like I said, it's not depressing, it's just how it is.

I still don't get it, but you seem pretty certain . . .

Cepheus does pretty well as a whole. [Shrug and considering the hugeass ants.]

I think so too. Everyone knows what they're doing.

They've been around pretty long, and have a wide set of allies.

Red said since the beginning. . . . You mean friends, right?

[... There's another of those awkward pauses.]

. . .

I think Red would call them friends.

... Probably. Or at least Gold.

Who's Gold?