Things had become weird, as of late, for Tal'at. Besides the whole urge to eat fish-- which he found only tasted good when the spider was eating them and not when he himself tried them-- sharing a mind with a lesser gembound was not exactly easy to cope with. The only improvement was a sense of regained mobility. He had a way to travel, safely, with this spider of blues and greens.
And while she did not like leaving the safety of the marsh, he managed to impose a gentle sense of curiously in the water walker. He quietly told her of other water sources, perhaps even different fish. Together, they had hunted one of the Orion Scales-- a black fish with sparkling white flecks-- Tal'at was amazed at the colors. It was unsettling to see through her eyes, but thankfully he could mostly avoid doing so if he kept their connection at wing's length.
Suffice to be said, when the bat heard the sound of a chrysalis hatching, the pair scuttled forward along the wall. It was a bizarre sight indeed-- a rather large neon aqua arachnid and her rider, a smaller fruit bat with a giant orb for a face... Together, they seemed like an unlikely pairing, but in the past few days they had become used to their shared existence. Tal'at, unfortunately, didn't know how to sever their bond and free the poor spider.
"Who is there? You are here," came the bat's response as a familiar noise reached his ears. He wasn't sure, at first, if he was correct. Yet as he reached out, probing, to his spider mount, he thoughts seemed to align with hers. She wasn't exactly the most, erm, wordy thing-- mostly her thoughts were more instinctual or emotional-- but he felt from her a very concrete, understandable idea. There was another Tal'at up on the ceiling.
"It's another bat? Hello up there! I am Tal'at!" The blind bat called up to the newborn gembound, down on the earth with his brightly colored spider friend.
