You’re an ant.
“I’m not an ant!”
Just . . . play along for a minute, all right? You’re an ant, a Lasius umbratus worker, an attractive golden colour with a glossy, eye-catching abdomen. Life is quite good these days; your queen invaded a colony of Lasius brunneus, the brown tree ant, some time ago, and after the dust settled, you’ve found your workload much reduced. Your new L. brunneus hosts are doing the grunt work, finding food and taking risks outside the nest; you’re cuddling babies, singing lullabies, and, at worst, holding a bottle or two. The hosts feed you and clean you, and they feed and clean your queen.
