One of the original queens sisters had been 10 years old back in 1986 and they discovered that though she grew naturally as a wirrn,molting and shedding her old exoskeleton each year as her body grew,when she tried to take on her human shape,it was stuck as the 10 year old girl she had once been.
Even though she made a huge impressive fiqure of a wirrn queen at the age of 26,whenever she took on her human form it was that of a 10 year old girl.That was another side effect of the change,for the rest of her wirrn existence she could never be the human women she might of once grown up to be.
It was one minute to midnight and the wirrn's guarding and assisting nathan in his birth got up and moved in.Som got the pails,some got the towels and some held him down with their clawed legs.
They undid the straps.They didn't want the straps damaging his changing body.
Then midnight struck and they pushed down hard.
Nathan screamed.His heart began to race.His nerves were being torn apart.
His legs and arms began to shrink and dissolve into his body.It felt like a thound worms were twisting under his skin.Some parts of his skin felt loose and other parts felt tight as a drum.His skull felt like it was ready to burst.
He felt a stabbing pain in his eyes.His chest and belly began to swell up and lengthen.
Then he coughed and the screaming stopped.His teeth fell out,followed by a bloody lump of meat which was his vocal cords.
The wirrn holding him down could feel the exoskeleton forming under the mammalian sac which coccooned it.They could feel 4 new pairs of bristly clawed legs wrap around his thorax as they formed and lengthened.
Then they felt his stinger push away through his spine and the first lumps of bloody meat plopped onto the floor.The towel and pail brigade got busy.
Then they felt his new membraneous wings and halteres sprout from where his back used to be.
It wouldn't be long now.They moved two clean buckets on either side of his head.
Nathan could feel his tongue begin to swell and lengthen.A beaked probiscus pushed out of a toothless hole.His ears tore and hung loose as his head and eyes began to grow.
There was a sick tearing sound as Nathan outgrew his old body.It started at the head,where skin hair and blood fell of a emerging insectoid head,moved down to his shortening but widening neck and continued down his chest and along his abdomen as his mammalian flesh plopped off his thorax and abdomen.The wirrn were careful as they slipped surplus meat ,bone and blood off his new stinger.There was no point in damaging his main means of defense.
Then the new wirrns legs fell outstretched to its sides,like a spider,
One last thing.Then wirrn lifted up the newborn and gently turned him over,so that his wings wouldn't be damaged.His new legs couln't support his weight yet,so he rested on his thorax,with his legs dangling over the side of the table.
His antennae began to wiggle as it began taking in thoughts from the other wirrn.
They began scrubbing the blood and crud off with the warm water,and rubbed his exoskeleton dry with the towels.
Then they rolled back the curtain,and Nathan could see the other two newborn wirrn.
Ah,the joys of giving birth.