"Furthermore, I wouldn't be the first potential queen to rise in her time," Apocrita admitted, looking down to the best of her ability, weary from her current condition and her own thoughts. "In the past, two potential queens had gotten into their cocoons, and even had the foresight to run off and hide somewhere before doing so, but Chrysalis hunted them down and killed them before they ever emerged. A third actually succeeded from emerging, but Chrysalis easily took her down. I was still a larva when that happened, and fact of the matter is, she's only gotten stronger since then."