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Day 1: Bug Hunt
Emmet sat back watching his Joltik having their mid day snack. Once again attempting to count the masses. Ingo had previously told him that he'd likely never be able to since they were always moving, and he'd likely count many of them twice because of it. He tried though, at this point it was like counting stars.
"1, 2...4...uh 9...12. no spark stay there. ah discharge don't steal your sisters batteries, 28, 32, no no fork do not bite! 44, 48, uh...52...are you two fighting! Flash! Crackle stop that fighting! You both had your shares." He stopped after he reached the undesired number. He looked around the apartment and then down at the stretching mother.
"Wheres Fulmy?" He asked looking around at the others to see if he could find the lone shiny. The spider mother stood up and looked around her infants who stopped fighting, biting, and stealing batteries from one another.
Her pincers made a clicking noise as a mother called throughout the apartment. It always astounded Emmet that a Garvantula can switch to a different language when talking to her babies. A male had no such thing. The females were loners and once the deed was done she produced and raised the brood on her own.
"Van?" She looked up at Emmet who reached down scratching her around her cheek.
"I'll try to look for him, you keep looking out for your babies." Emmet stood up to his full height and started to look though his usual haunts. Joltiks were tiny and can hide in places pretty well.
So under the counter in the bathroom, in the kitchen, under the bed, and just inside the cups on the table. Emmet looked around the room and then up the the lights. at first he thought he saw him and took the bulb off and looked inside. Nothing but cobwebs probably left behind by the previous brood.
Emmet was at a loss. He sat down the think about it. Where hadn't he looked?
the front door opened and shut.
"Good evening Emmet. Have a good day off?" Ingo walked in taking off his jacket and putting it onto the coat stand by the door. taking off his hat and placed it just beside Emmets.
"It was eventful, I can not find..." He spotted just on Ingo's head the one Joltik that had gone missing. "You little traveler...it would seem the one I have been looking for all day long has accompanied you to work." Emmet lightly picked up the yawning Joltik. Likely low on energy.
"Ah yes, I found him when I sat down to eat my lunch. I fed him and stowed him back under my had for safe keeping. He was a good boy." Ingo scratched the Joltiks fur. Only to receive a loud friendly chirp and a shock.