She holds up her hand, and makes the spider gather itself up and hop delicately from fingertip to fingertip.
"Bugs. I can control them and use their senses. Normally, my range is about a quarter mile in any direction, as many as I can find. Since I arrived here, it's been fifty, fifty-five feet out, and barely a handful at a time. I think the most I've managed here was three hundred or so. Which is... three hundred bees would fit in a teacup. Three hundred fruit flies fit in a pill capsule. It's not a lot."
"Oooh. Lovely, darling, you are a creepy crawly like me." She exclaims, pleased. "Well done. Are there many bugs here? That is a very difficult, very special gift."
"Not as many as I'd like - kind of a bottled ecosystem. But there are the bees, and I've been breeding everything I could get my hands on since I came aboard. We brought mosquitos back from the last port, those have been very useful. And Iris gave me hornets and wasps, and Kiryu got me some Darwin's bark spiders - for the webbing - and bloodworms." Taylor smiles again, a little amused at herself.
Nadja gives a nod, and reaches for her communicator.
"Well. That is good, then. All right, let's speak to the Admiral, shall we? I don't know if he will let me release your powers for longer than a month but I can certainly try. "
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Date: 2021-08-23 04:21 am (UTC)From:"Well! All right. If you're sure. Now, what can you do? Not that I am going to only give you some, but I'm curious."
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Date: 2021-08-23 04:26 am (UTC)From:"Bugs. I can control them and use their senses. Normally, my range is about a quarter mile in any direction, as many as I can find. Since I arrived here, it's been fifty, fifty-five feet out, and barely a handful at a time. I think the most I've managed here was three hundred or so. Which is... three hundred bees would fit in a teacup. Three hundred fruit flies fit in a pill capsule. It's not a lot."
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Date: 2021-08-26 10:00 am (UTC)From:"I've made my cabin into an insectarium."
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Date: 2021-08-31 02:46 pm (UTC)From:"Well. That is good, then. All right, let's speak to the Admiral, shall we? I don't know if he will let me release your powers for longer than a month but I can certainly try. "