I looked up from the laptop I was using to view a webpage on origami.
Oh, nice! Using the bugs for more artistic purposes. I like it!
So what got Taylor into this? Is she doing it to pass time and as an outlet for creativity? That would be a healthy change of pace for Taylor.
Alternatively, it might just be a way to train her fine control over the bugs.
“Is it? I’m pretty used to them, so I don’t give it a lot of thought.”
“They’re so organized and human. Bugs shouldn’t act that way.”
They’re basically a swarm of tiny bodies with a human brain when she’s controlling them, so it’s no wonder they act human.
I do like that it’s not the bugs themselves that creep Charlotte out, but the way they act nothing like bugs. They fall into the uncanny valley, bug edition, where they look completely normal for bugs, but feel sort of wrong.
“I don’t really believe in thinking that way anymore,” I said, absently.
I guess that’s fair.