"HAHH!" Theo shouted to get their attention, and he was successful; the crawlers saw him all along and started moving toward him.
Theo took out the sword from his scabbard again, he had just now cleaned it, and it was going to be dirty yet again.
But when two of the crawlers came close enough, they halted. Theo didn't know why that was but then he saw the others still move toward them so he butchered them with the sword and went to look at the situation again.
All the ants in the formation marched forward while Theo went inside the bond to check on things only to see the ant queen's silhouette facing the two crawlers with their emotions of panic and confusion everywhere.
Theo could tell they were a lot more intelligent than normal, the emotions were very clean, just like the ant queen.
The mantis's emotions on the other hand felt crude even after a lot of investment to the intelligence stat which didn't seem to be working the magic.
