"Be careful," Chitin suddenly warned, the swiftness with which he cut you off and the hard edge to his voice stopping you dead in your tracks. "Your love for your brood is strong, and that makes your love for Chrysalis even stronger. Even if you don't want to, you're going to keep feeding her, and she's only going to get stronger. If Apocrita doesn't emerge soon, Queen Chrysalis will be too strong for her to defeat," he declared, a slight tremble in his voice as the worst possibility went through his mind.