Spawner- Camo Bugs

Ten of his children stirred in his belly.  Acid churned and fed them.  Chemicals dumped into stomach from chest cavity, generating reactions that created more complex components, along with a bioelectric jolt that gave them life.

The ten became twenty, and twenty became forty.  Forty became eighty, and his upper body swelled with them.

When they left his body this time, they were faster, larger, with more durable shells.  He’d colored them to blend in with the poured concrete floor of the loading area.

- Ward, Interlude 15.z