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Submitted to Contest #325
Ants have no names. They live as one body, a superorganism, and each ant is a cell inside it. They recognize each other by scent, not by name. When they meet, they touch antennae to “smell” each other. If the scent matches, they know they are family.That is why when our protagonist, whom we will call Hana, got lost and ended up alone in a cold, almost empty room with no ant smell around at all, she was terrified. She had never spent a single night away from her community before.Hana, a queen in her colony, was subjected to a strange incident...
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