Following Her Home

The creature kept following her. A sign that she needed to be cautious, or this one was unnaturally curious. Hopefully she wouldn't regret letting it follow her to her home, where her only possessions were kept. As they got deeper into the forbidden forest, the trees would be lined with more red silk which got thicker the closer they got to what Farea considered her origin point.

And then they arrived where the webs were thickest, almost blotting out the filtered sunlight from the trees above. This was the place where Farea could feel safe. The webs on the ground were anchored solidly onto the trees. No beast should be able to break through them. Although most of them were above the ground since that was the most obvious choice for Farea to avoid land-based predators.

Which only made the centerpiece stand out. It was like a large igloo, big enough to be a family house, dome-shaped with many tethers to trees to help it keep its shape. One other feature the creature might notice is that on the side of the structure was a small channel leading to one section of the forest that had some trees knocked over, as if something just bulldozed its way through.

Farea entered the dome-like structure. Inside were some platforms that were also supported by tension from the silk 'cables' linked to the insides. But the actual centerpiece was the cylindrical pod in the middle of the dome. It looked just the right size for Farea, and it still was functional. Like her, it could be powered through sunlight, or re-organized molecules from organic substances and water, a source of which was not too far away.

"..."

Farea wasn't sure what to do with the creature following her in her abode, but she carried on with her duties, but kept a close eye on the creature, not wanting it to destroy her home. She climbed up the walls and about a third of the way up, she rubbed one side of the sample container she fashioned from before on the needle of her spinneret then let it go as a thin thread kept it aloft. She attached the thread onto the curved roof and let it dangle there.

The first of a collection. Until she could find a way to study it, she was going to keep it there. The piece she had swallowed had been dissolved into its base elements, and she saw what they were made up of. Some silicon, and various metals and non metals. These were all logged into her databank for future reference.