Thread-Keeper of the Synod · female
Aranea keeps the Thread – the silk network that carries the Ground Speech through every district – and she listens to it the way other people listen to weather. She was born a weaver ant with eight limbs instead of six; the nurses called her the spider as an insult, and she took the word and made it a title. She moves slowly and precisely, and her two extra legs are always touching something: a line, a wall, the floor, the edge of the table between her and whoever she is talking to. She says it ...
From the simulation The Chitinous Mandate.