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The little indigo grub squeaked and clicked at you in a manner that probably was supposed to be threatening. Your bloodpusher ached at how stupidly cute it was and you reached down, just a little pat would be ok, right? Shrieking in terror the grub tried to crawl away from this huge monstrosity that is a hand.
“Not that brave anymore, huh?” you chuckled and easily scooped the tiny thing up in your arms. It was so tiny. Was highblood grubs supposed to be this small? You had always imagined them to big as shit. Especially the indigo ones. But this one was too small, too fragile and its horns too big. If you wanted to you could easily squash it with your bare hands or feet.
And you think the grub knew that too as it stared at you with frightened bead eyes. You sighed and scratched it between its horns in hopes it would calm it down.
“It’s ok little buddy. I’m not gonna hurt you.”
It stared at you with confused eyes. You thought it must wonder why you weren’t ripping it apart by now.
“Kee!” it chirped questioningly. You smiled.
“No eating.” It chirped again at that and nuzzled your finger with a soft purr. You kept petting it until its eyes started to drop and it gave you a drowsy look. “It’s ok. You can sleep, I’m not going anywhere.”
And so it did and you vaguely wondered on a scale from one to ten how pissed its lusus was going to be when it got back and found its grub sleeping in an enmey's arms.
Probably a lot. But you couldn't bring yourself to care enough to let the tiny one go.