James Turnbow

The colony has also shown to be polygynous, with a number of queens estimated to be over 50,000.

Paired with an exceedingly quick egg-to-worker development of just under two weeks and the ability to inbreed, the colony is able to expand rapidly should sufficient nutrients be available.

SCP-9029 queens have also shown to be invulnerable to all forms of common pesticide.

The colony feeds by anomalous means whenever invertebrates near its sphere of influence.

Once in this sphere, the invertebrates' bodily systems gradually fail, with the rate and severity of these failures varying between subjects and species.

When the subject is dead, the ants will harvest its corpse for nutrients.

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They always say you're safest underground during a storm.

I used to believe that.

The sirens had been wailing for a good ten minutes before my phone rang.

It was my dad, voice tight with urgency.

Get to the shelter, baby, now!

I thought it was going north, I said, glancing out the window.

The sky looked like wet concrete, bruised purple and green at the edges.

He was scared.