Signal Interceptor of the Vanguard · female
Formicastra does not speak. Not in trail, not in tread, not in stridulation. She communicates only through small tablets of resin into which she carves glyphs with her mandibles and then lays a single drop of pheromone, so that each message can be read twice: once by eye and once by scent. The two readings do not always say the same thing, and she intends that. She is one of the smallest bodies in the city – a minim, a garden caste – and she has made her smallness into a discipline: she fits in...
From the simulation The Chitinous Mandate.